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An electricity market is a system that enables the exchange of electrical energy through an electrical grid. Historically, electricity has been primarily sold by companies that operate electric generators, purchased by electricity retailers, and sold to customers.
The electric power industry began in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the United States and United Kingdom. Throughout the 20th century, and up to the present, many countries have made changes to their system of supplying and/or purchasing electricity. Change has been driven by many factors, ranging from technological advances (on both the supply and demand side) to politics and ideology.
Around the turn of the 21st century, several countries restructured their electric power industries, replacing the vertically integrated and tightly regulated "traditional" electricity market with market mechanisms for electricity generation, transmission, distribution, and/or retailing. The traditional and competitive market approaches loosely correspond to two visions of industry: the deregulation was transforming electricity from a public service (like sewerage) into a tradable good (like crude oil). As of the 2020s, the traditional markets are still common in some regions, including large parts of the United States and Canada.
In recent years, governments have reformed electricity markets to improve management of variable renewable energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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