The Chinese took the blueprints for Vogtle, tweaked them and now build them at 1/6th cost Vogtle will cost and 12 times the speed and frequency. A government pushing power generation and supplying it at a low cost can then leave the market to consume it and produce from it- remember the Hoover Dam! China has now begun construction on the Yarlung Tsangpo River of a new hydro scheme that makes the three gorges one look small. Electricity is the lifeblood of the industrial and post industrial economy. 'Free markets' are often inherently inferior to state lead strategies to provide it because of the tendency for profit motivated power generators to operate in a rentseeking cartel manner due to the high costs of entry to the market and lack of incentives to increase supply thus reducing profits.