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The Cost of Nationalising the Supply Chain

There is no reason to have private companies involved. They are often very slow to connect renewable energy to the grid and there is no rationale for having those in private ownership. If you brought those networks into public hands, you would say £3.7 billion that could be plowed back into reducing bills or investing in renewables. But yeah, you're absolutely right. We would have to buy out those companies. That would be something that would have to be negotiated and decided. I think when this has been floated before as an idea, it's been suggested that it's this really big scary idea that we take back these companies. Actually, this is something that happens. Sometimes government steps in and

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