I hope your refering to the recent power grid failures. If so, then I can point out the massive failures that occured in state controlled European electric grids.
Actually, the biggest reason for the failure of power grids is that government stays involved just enough to regulate, ensuring a huge vcost overhead for theprivate companies that try to rnthem. We have a similar phenomenon here with private schools. They are private, but they still have to teach government mandated curriculum. .