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Is the grid privatised? I don't think so, its not in the Netherlands at least. Supplier and grid are separated.Energy grids are in a catastrophic state all over the world for the same reason most should-be-public infrastructure is: it's all been privatised, and the new owners take the profits while putting only enough in to keep things afloat. Infrastructure isn't something that's supposed to make a profit, it's something you invest money into so that the rest of your economy makes more money. The fact that the infrastructure bought and paid for by taxpayers was ever allowed to be sold off into private hands for a pittance of its value, is one of the greatest 20th-century failures of so-called democratic nations.
And guess what, Tennet, the national net controller, has a major issue. There's money, but there are no hands to make the connections, dig in bigger cables, etc. Or there's legislation stopping them.