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Chapter 7: Economic Planning and Energy Supply
The nature of the energy business entity responsible for energy production and supply to households, corporations, and other energy consumers is not unrelated to the mode of production in general, but it does not necessarily have an inevitable relationship with it.
In other words, even in the capitalist mode of production, due to the policy of public ownership of natural resources, energy enterprises often take the form of public enterprises such as state-owned enterprises (especially resource enterprises such as oil companies), and although they are stock companies, they sometimes take the form of officially recognized monopolies that are guaranteed the privileges of a monopoly by the state. The state has also taken the form of a recognized monopoly.
However, recent so-called neo-liberal ideology extends to the liberalization of energy production and supply, and in particular, there is a growing trend toward privatization and competition in the electric power industry.
In contrast, energy enterprises in a sustainable planned economy, where supply planning is based on transnational management of energy, are based on socially owned public enterprises. Specifically, it will take the form of a production business organization, which will be discussed later.
For example, in the case of electricity, it is the Electric Power Organization. Such an entity will not be divided by region, but will be established as a unified entity on an all-Zonal basis. However, regional offices will be established in each of the several regional jurisdictions to ensure a certain degree of decentralized management.
In addition, primary energy sources such as oil to be managed by the private sector will not be imported commercially, but will be planned and supplied according to the supply quotas of each Zone, so an entity that will serve as a unified receiving window is necessary.
In this regard, as an entity under the direct control of the Energy Planning Council, which is a subordinate body of the Economic Planning Conference and consists of energy business entities, the Natural Resource Liaison Organization, which will serve as a comprehensive receiving window for supplied resources, will be established and will be in charge of everything from the negotiation of supply quotas to marine transportation. The Energy Planning Council will be in charge of the secondary supply of the received resources within the Zone.
A sustainable planned economy that does not use nuclear power generation also includes the historic and time-consuming energy disposal process of phasing out nuclear power generation. Such a nuclear phase-out plan will be implemented on a global scale, and for the time being, a specialized entity such as the Nuclear Phase-Out Organization will be established separately from the Electric Power Organization in the Zone.
👉The papers published on this blog are meant to expand upon my On Communism.