How Britain changed from public to private power emdash overnight

Journal Article · Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1991 · Power Engineering; (United States)

OSTI ID:5280608

Smith, D J

This paper reports that privatization will bring real competition to the electric power industry in Britain, according to Robert Malpas, chairman of PowerGen, one of the country's new private generating companies. The customer will be king, he believes. John Baker, chief executive of National Power (another generating company), says, A system in which power generation was essentially a monopoly activity operated and controlled through an integrated transmission system, has been changed virtually overnight into a competitive and desegregated industry in which generation is primarily a stand-alone activity.

• OSTI ID: 5280608
• Journal Information: Power Engineering; (United States), Journal Name: Power Engineering; (United States) Vol. 95:6; ISSN POENA; ISSN 0032-5961
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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