It does kind of make sense to have a market for the "generation" side with all the different types of power source that exist now. But the infrastructure is pri

It does kind of make sense to have a market for the "generation" side with all the different types of power source that exist now. But the infrastructure is privately owned? That's crazy. Like privatising the motorway network! They did try with the railway network (Railtrack) which was subsequently renationalised and only the train operating companies being private (and even they, like electricity generating companies, are often state-owned by other countries...). Handing an entire national network monopoly to a single company is foolish.