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This chapter clarifies what liberalisation corresponds to specifically in the electricity sector, scrutinise drivers of change in the organising principles of the sector to address what caused electricity liberalisation, and assesses electricity liberalisation with a spatio-temporally holistic perspective. It first begins by examining reflections of neoliberalism on the structure of electricity industry, then investigates drivers of change in the sector by develo** a taxonomy for classifying the organising principles of the sector from a historical perspective, and makes an assessment of the global electricity liberalisation.
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I preferred using ‘hail’ in order to reflect usefulness of electricity as a superior lighting energy and people’s eagerness to use it.
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I preferred importing ‘mein’ and ‘reich’ from German, in order to attribute to the rising statist and totalitarian understanding of the time.
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Ünal, S. (2023). Global Transformation in the Electricity Sector. In: Neoliberal Transformation of Electricity. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-0282-8_4
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