The public control of electricity: early days in Canada
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.11606/khronos.v0i8.165138Keywords:
Electricity, Energy distribution, Science historyAbstract
In this article we will address the dispute over electricity production and distribution between local governments in Canada and shareholders and directors of private companies in the late 19th century. It was questioned whether the service would be deployed and operated by a private monopoly or by the government. Municipal management was the result of the Civic Populism movement, which argued that utility companies should be fully public and the consequent creation of the Hydro-Electric Power Commission in Ontario for power distribution in 1906 and generation and sale in 1914. The events in Canada alarmed investors and directors in Toronto and Brazil of the Brazilian Traction holding company against the nationalization of utilities, removing decision-making and earnings management from the country.
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