
Electricity grid competition - what is it? The German liberalization fairy tale
Once upon a time, there was a country that had an electricity grid. It belonged to the "Big Five", i.e. to the then Bayernwerk, VIAG, RWE, EnBW and Vattenfall groups. All five actually belonged to those who had once paid for their lines with their "fees": In other words, the electricity customers. Even if only somehow via their villages, towns, districts or federal states.