djftw
Heterodox Member
I suspect many of these energy trading companies aren't really worth anything, as has just been proven by what's happened. All they are really doing is speculating on energy prices (i.e. hoping to buy low an sell a little bit higher). I expect it'll be different if one of the actual generation companies get into trouble, although I don't think many are currently UK owned.
I could be wrong, but I think the French Government is the largest single owner of UK generation capacity