[ta545]

Well there was a benevolent dictator in the recent past (upto 1995), when the grid was publicly owned.

[olivermarks]

Agree, but there have been some very expensive local authority disasters around solar.

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/the-chauffeur-the-leaked-tape-an...

Publicly owned old technology is very different to attempts to publicly develop next generation power, which tends to require brave entrepreneurs historically.