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Electricity Supply, the British Experiment - The Intentions Were Good (Paperback)
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Electricity Supply, the British Experiment - The Intentions Were Good (Paperback)
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In Britain, most of us take electricity for granted. When there are
power cuts, we are shocked by the gloom and the silence and how
dependent on electricity we have become. Critics predicted that the
privatisation of electricity supply in 1990 would lead to power
shortages. Elsewhere in Europe it was sometimes dismissed
contemptuously as 'The British Experiment'. But the plan worked.
Private investment flowed and customers reaped the benefits. Then
it began to go wrong. Governments wanted more and more say, but
their policies were often confusing and sometimes merely
vote-catching The confidence of investors was damaged. Power
stations closed faster than they were replaced. The risk of power
shortages increased. In 1987, David Porter found himself at the
centre of the energy supply revolution when he helped to form a new
body created to fight for the UK's independent electricity
producers. Soon he was also speaking for the companies that had
once been state-owned. Battles were fought and often won, but
government intervention grew relentlessly. The ideals of the
privatisation were forgotten. Politics, rather than the paying
customers, drove the industry. This book is David's story of those
eventful years.
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