As Star mentioned
Governments do not run countries
Companies run countries unless it is a dictatorship or communist country
And companies now days are run by the large funds managers who will vote any or all directors on of off a board if the company does provide the dividend they demand
The rest of it is just a circus performance to pretend that some sort of democracy is in practice.
By LAW a board & the executive are bound to act in the best interest of the SHARE HOLDERS not you the customer and if they do not do this then vultures in $20,000 suits will launch a legal claim against them .
Laws were written to protect the assets of the rich , not for the benefit of the poor .
In the USA from Regan on every administration has watered down consumer protections to the benefit of the megga wealthy .
Classic example is the ban on IC engines that will do nothing but take money out of your pocket & put it into the Waltons / Lowes off shore tax havens
As for energy, we knew back in the 70's when I was in college that this was going to happen but the megga rich did not want to spend any money and had not made enough money on the capital they had invested so they turned climate pollution into a left vs right political arguement and now we are reaping the rewards of allowing them to do that . Originally the right were advocating for the change because they could see the massive costs that would be incurred and that those costs would drastically multiply the longer we delayed actions
There is no arguement that coal fired power stations have to be wound down
They should have all been closed down by now & converted into hydrogen powered generators with the hydrogen produced by electrolysis of water via solar cells if you wanted to keep the existing distribution ( ie selling ) grid .
AT the UNSW there was one of these units on the roof of almost every building and they produced enough power to run the lighting in all of them with power to spare and this was back in the late 60's early 70's when the solar technology was in it's infancy .
But this research was canned because it would render the government run ( back then ) power stations unprofitable
While we can switch to "renewable" energy supplies to do it you have to drastically reduce power consumption during the renewable dead zone ≈ 8pm to 5am and the first step to doing that is to scrap every thing with a glowing element
Can you see the energy police kicking in doors and marching off with all your radient heaters , stove tops & hot water tanks ?
And the lie turned into a truth about solar electricity being cheaper is true but only if you use no electricity whatsoever after peak solar which is around 2 hours after sunrise & before sunset .
Now because you can not switch a coal fired power station on & off at will, like a gas fired open turbine the power generated after dark has the running cost of the plant at idle for the daylight hours added on top of the direct generation costs for the power used overnight so that makes it near 3 to 4 times the price per KW that it would have been per KW if it was running full power all day , so adding all of the renewables has actually pushed the total power prices up.
