You can take the politics out of power but...

I’m talking to Jim Bushnell, an Associate Professor at the University of California, Davis – who was in New Zealand in August as the S.T. Lee fellow at the New Zealand Institute for the Study of Competition and Regulation.

Last week, Jim talked about the counterintuitive blackouts in the 2001 Californian Power Crisis they saw – even when there was surplus generation capacity available. This week he explains what it did for some high-profile political careers, including that of Arnold Schwarzenegger.

In August, Bushnell gave a lecture in Wellington asking If Electricity Liberalisation is So Great, why does everybody hate it?