Surprisingly familiar

I’m talking to Jim Bushnell, an Associate Professor at the University of California, Davis – who was in New Zealand in 2013. This is from a series of podcasts I recorded back then which remain relevant today as we ask questions again around electricity market reform.

Last week, Jim talked us through the reform process the US followed and reflected on the results in 2006: higher prices in the states that had deregulated. This week I ask him about the Labour-Green NZ Power proposals – it rang a few bells.

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