Opinion | Eskom should make way for an independent power grid, by Eustace Davie
The security of short-term and long-term supplies demands that government changes the current faulty structure.
Consumers switching with ease from one electricity retailer to another tells you more about the system than is at once apparent. The existence of competitive prices means that competing generating plants supply electricity directly to large users or into the wholesale market, from which large electricity users and retailers buy their supplies. Whatever the circumstances, it has become clear that an independently owned and operated high-voltage transmission grid is a necessity.
The UK’s National Grid is a private company owned by shareholders. It owns the high-voltage grids in England and Wales and claims on its website a high level of transmission reliability. National Grid was created when the electricity industry was privatised. The new company was initially owned by 12 regional electricity companies but was taken over by the private Grid company that now owns it. The company operates the high-voltage transmission system across Great Britain.
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