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Not really. After the collapse of the nuclear power project owned by LILCO the company was taken over by a public entity. This is mostly a fiction designed to allow for public financing of the sunk costs.

LIPA owns nothing and buys it power from private companies. I'm not sure who owns the distribution system, it may be LIPA. In the present US climate taking over a private company and making it into a true municipal one doesn't happen even in cases as extreme as this one.

Regardless of how obvious the examples of the value of non-profit enterprises for certain key sectors of society, the US keeps selling off the publicly owned resources and getting higher prices and lower quality as a consequence. The new owners do get rich however having been handed effective monopolies.

Policies not Politics
---- Daily Landscape

by rdf (robert.feinman@gmail.com) on Fri Jul 13th, 2007 at 11:08:47 AM EST
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Which is why a "Community Trust" is necessary.

Assets should be "owned" by "Custodians" in the public interest, because ideologies of local government change, and, therefore local government can't be trusted not to sell off the Crown Jewels, while the private sector can't be trusted not to melt them down and sell off the precious metal and gems...

"Melting down" being very much to the point...

It's then a simple matter for the funders and users of funding to form a partnership and agree a reasonable rate for whatever needs doing.

"The future is already here -- it's just not very evenly distributed" William Gibson

by ChrisCook (cojockathotmaildotcom) on Fri Jul 13th, 2007 at 11:43:09 AM EST
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Btw. I don't say "Not for Profit", but rather "Not for Loss"

"The future is already here -- it's just not very evenly distributed" William Gibson
by ChrisCook (cojockathotmaildotcom) on Fri Jul 13th, 2007 at 11:44:46 AM EST
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