Looking at our energy companies, I can't figure out what the fuck is going on.

British Gas - owned by Centrica, the same company who own Direct Energy in USA. British based mulitnational company.

EDF - French state-owned.

Scottish Power - owned by a private Spanish company.

SSE - Scottish, private.

npower - German, private.

E.ON - also private German company.

So the only state-owned power company we have are French.

Turns out my water supplier is UK state-owned, although I can't even begin to figure out the company structure, and it appears to be the only state-owned supplier in the UK.