From my point of view, I have always understood these law sets in terms of a context that the "energy generation" laws refer to the organisation(s) that actually generate the electricity and the "energy regulation" laws refer to the organisation(s) that buy the electricity from the generators and then sell it to consumers. I'm glad you raised this, though, because I suspect there is probably room to somehow improve these laws/make them clearer.
For the record, here are the law sets concerned:
Government policy on energy generation.
- All power stations are publicly owned.
- Small scale private electrical generation is permitted but most energy is generated by a government-owned company.
- Private and public power stations exist side-by-side.
- Private power stations provide energy for the entire power grid.
Energy regulation.
- Energy is provided by nationalised companies.
- Energy is provided by private companies but the prices they can charge are regulated.
- Energy is provided by private companies which are not subject to any special regulations.
- Energy provision is left to local governments.
- Energy is provided by private, unregulated companies but subsidies are given to those on a low income.
To make things a little more complicated, in addition to these two law sets mentioned by Siggon, there is also another one on the power grid:
Government policy on the nation's power grid.
- The national grid is fully owned by the state.
- Each region owns and maintains its own power grid.
- A single private company owns and maintains the national power grid.
- Multiple private companies each own and maintain sections of the national power grid.
Additionally, there are law sets on nuclear power and renewable energy.
If anybody can suggest ways of improving the energy laws, I'm open to suggestions.