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Bill: Nation's power grid Policy
Details
Submitted by[?]: Capitalizt Party
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: March 2128
Description[?]:
| As with the actual policy the State owns the whole national power grid, we think allowing multiple private companies to own and mantain sections of the national power grid would encourage competition at the advantage of the customers. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on the nation's power grid.
Old value:: The national grid is fully owned by the state.
Current: Multiple private companies each own and maintain sections of the national power grid.
Proposed: Multiple private companies each own and maintain sections of the national power grid.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 15:29:13, October 15, 2005 CET | From | United Blobs | To | Debating the Nation's power grid Policy |
| Message | How would a split grid benefit the consumer? Each consumer would have access to a single grid and therefore they are bound to that company. These companies would have to sell power between sections of the grid increasing costs for the end consumer. We support one grid only whether private or public. |
| Date | 15:53:16, October 15, 2005 CET | From |  Liberal-Progressive Union | To | Debating the Nation's power grid Policy |
| Message | Or these multiple grids sell power at a rate cheaper for the consumer to attract consumers. Multiple companies presents the oppurtunity for competition among these companies. But I am unsure as this may conflict with my current energy proposal allowing for private ownership of powerstations. But I am for private ownership, maybe not this certain proposal. |
| Date | 16:04:35, October 15, 2005 CET | From | United Blobs | To | Debating the Nation's power grid Policy |
| Message | The grid is the infrastructure that carries the electricity to the consumer's house. The consumer is mostly affected by their energy supplier who buy the electricity from the grid to sell to the consumer. This is covered by the "Energy Regulation" proposal. Multiple grids would reduce the choice available to the consumer, what happens if the grid they connect to does not allow them to use a certain company, and may result in local monopolies, a grid company only allowing its own energy supplier to sell power to the grid's user. The only way around this is to have each user have access to multiple grids but this would increase costs and result in duplicate infrastructures, i.e. increased inefficiencies and therefore prices.. |
| Date | 21:15:32, October 15, 2005 CET | From | We Say So! Party | To | Debating the Nation's power grid Policy |
| Message | The current law is the preferable option. In the event of a National crisis control of infrastructure should be maintained by the Government, and the only way we can guarantee that said infrastructure is of high quality and easily accesible is to maintain public control of aforementioned infrastructure. The modifications would also, as the UB has pointed out, this proposal could have the effect of reducing the choices of the consumer and/or increasing the costs of operation thusly leading to higher prices for the consumer. |
| Date | 14:41:36, October 18, 2005 CET | From | Capitalizt Party | To | Debating the Nation's power grid Policy |
| Message | I'd put this to vote. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 169 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 231 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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