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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet

A really long time ago, with the money on those investments having been made back more than once since.

Per the above, why not ask how much they pay for use of the national grid, ask the national grid how much profit they are making?

Note the difference in charging methods, pure pay as you use on these, along with the rather limited technical support and additional services involved. They buy the power, they pay for use of the distribution network, they sell you the power.

People have a good complain about the profits the power companies are making, they obviously aren't doing that badly.

I'm pretty sure these guys don't need to invest in 'substation splits' to supply additional current to customers as part of upgrades, upgrade CPE, manage increased demand, etc, etc. The two really aren't comparable.

IIRC the National Grid is jointly owned by the electric companies via a holding company, no doubt for accounting purposes and tax evasion.