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DOZENS? Dozens. For real, dozens??? Please list for me every utility company that will actually provide electricity service to your home. If it's actually more than two I will donate $25 to a charity of your choice right now. Not ones that operate in your state/county, but ones that will actually service your home. No cap, my Visa is ready. I'll post the receipt.
52 to be precise
I'm gonna commit to this. How does this work? I looked and according to the Internet TenneT is the sole operator of the national electrical grid in the Netherlands. Do you have 52 power lines running to your home? What do these companies do if they don't actually produce the electricity or operate the grid?
I have precisely one power company that services about 5 million residents here where I live. No other options. This is the case for almost all Americans as far as I'm aware, outside of a few specific municipality-run power organizations, but those are exceedingly rare.
In Australia, and I assume the Netherlands, the transmission network is separately owned and run by government corporations. While multiple private companies are allowed to generate power and sell to customers on the government owned grid.
Interesting, I've never heard of this before but I suspect you're right. Was it always this way in Australia? I can't for the life of me figure out how America could be convinced to make its way towards this, but this sort of arrangement seems like a pretty ideal middle-ground.