Yvette OswinThe UK has fully privatised Energy
France has fully Nationalised
(Blade of the sun)
Globalement inoffensive@Hope4All French electricity market is privatised. There are A LOT of companies you can buy electricity from. One of those companies happens to be owned by the state.
The production company is separated, still almost fully state-owned.
The real difference is that France imposes a selling price that the state-owned company has to follow, and a lot of other companies follow this price as a reference. Some are cheaper though, but can rise suddenly.
This is bound to end as only legacy consumers can keep the contract with the imposed price. If you quit the state-owned company for a private one, then want to come back, you can't have this contract back.
@Hope4All and that's only for individual consumers.
Businesses and collectives (social housing for example) cannot have the imposed-price contract.
They were hit hard.
It's really not a paradise.
It still is better than a fully privatized situation, but it is not ideal, at all.