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With most homes now connected for electricity, and industry and commerce increasingly dependent on it, governments began to take a greater interest. They were concerned about the natural monopoly and controlling financial excesses, but also about the reliability and service provided by the utilities. In America, land of free enterprise, this took the form of heavy regulation of the private companies. In many other countries, although the utility appeared to be a private company, it was mostly owned by the state.
Our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter.
Lewis L. Strauss, chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, 1954
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Williams, J.B. (2018). Too Cheap to Meter? Nuclear Power and Beyond. In: The Electric Century. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51155-9_16
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