The second mode, ‘private supplier’, emerged after
privatisation of the energy utilities and infrastructures
in 1989. Reflecting wider neo-liberal ideology,
consumer choice and market logics (Toke and Lauber
2007), liberalisation opened up opportunities for
new entrants into energy production with diversification of renewable energy hardware supported by
subsidies and protected market share for specified
forms and sizes of ‘near market’ technologies (Mitchell
et al. 2006)