NZ Power - Mainstream or Mad?

Gerritsen, Ben

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NZ Power - Mainstream or Mad?

Gerritsen, Ben

URI: https://ir.wgtn.ac.nz/handle/123456789/19300

Date: 2013

Rights: Permission to publish research outputs of the New Zealand Institute for the Study of Competition and Regulation has been granted to the Victoria University of Wellington Library. Refer to the permission letter in record: https://ir.wgtn.ac.nz/handle/123456789/18870

Abstract:

The Labour Party and the Greens have made electricity sector restructuring a key plank of their 2014 election campaign. Their proposal to replace New Zealand's wholesale electricity market with a central buyer (known as 'NZ Power') has been variously described as 'common in many jurisdictions overseas' and 'barking mad'. Surely it can't be both? This session explores the lessons that international experience holds for NZ Power - and what the experience tells us about the merits ofthe NZ Power policy.

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