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Re:California Mayors Join Campaign to Buy Out PG&E by rayiner on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @08:02AM (#21462066)
The Dutch electric grid is mostly privatize, both retail and energy production. A publicly owned company manages the high voltage production lines. (But publicly owned companies in Europe often behave very much like privately owned ones. For example, TenneT, the Dutch high voltage grid operator, has a subsidiary that manages part of the grid in Germany. It issues annual statements reporting profits: https://annualreport.tennet.eu/2018/annualreport/userfiles/p.... It just so happens that the Dutch government owns all the shares.)
Re:California Mayors Join Campaign to Buy Out PG&E by eecc on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @06:16PM (#21468636)
Correct, indeed the local distribution grid is owned and operated by private companies but these are separate from the energy operators.