Glossary (Body of Knowledge on Infrastructure Regulation)

Municipalization:: A municipality's assumption of responsibility for supplying utility service to its residents. In the case of electricity, the city could either generate and distribute power or purchase it wholesale and distribute it. The term is sometimes used to refer to the process whereby a privately owned utility is bought and operated by the municipality, sometimes under extreme pressures-such as not providing rights of way or levying taxes so as to make current private operation uneconomic.

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