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Tom Gegg's avatar

This is super interesting Arthur.

Do you know if anyone has ever compared the cost of the current subsidies for private electricity producers and infrastructure owners, vs what it would cost the taxpayer if we built a publicly owned electricty system, operating in a similar way to the one you've described here?

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Bayo's avatar

Great post Arthur - pedantic accounting point incoming. Here "...nationalised energy industries had three income streams to pay for investments: borrowing, bills, funding from the state." Not income but sources of capital or cash flow. Only the bills were income

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Who kept the lights on?'s avatar

You are completely correct

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matt's avatar

Hi, fantastic post, I am just wondering if you could point me to where I could find "Energy supply statistics 1948-1980," Google isn't turning up much. Thanks!

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Who kept the lights on?'s avatar

Im afraid they aren't online. It is a statistical series in the UCL library.

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matt's avatar

Ah, okay. That's annoying but manageable. Thank you!

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