Privatized energy has failed us - so why is UK 'aid' exporting it?

The Ecologist
Feb 19, 2015, 2:59 pm23 pts
The failure of the UK's privatized electricity oligopoly - expensive, uncompetitive and slow to adopt renewable technologies - is being repeated across the global south, writes Christine Haigh: over £100 million of UK 'aid' is supporting energy privatization in the very countries that can least afford it.

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