A story of many paths

This is the third of a podcast series I recorded back in 2013 on Energy News that I am now releasing. It remains relevant today as we embark on another review of the New Zealand electricity market.

I’m talking to Jim Bushnell, an Associate Professor at the University of California, Davis, who was in New Zealand in 2013.

Last week, Jim looked back at the US electric industry before liberalisation and what was wrong with it. This week, he talks us through the reform process they followed. It was quite a bit more complex than in New Zealand!

Bushnell is the 2013 S T Lee visiting fellow at the New Zealand Institute for the Study of Competition and Regulation. Before joining UC Davis he spent 15 years as the director of research at the University of California Energy Institute in Berkeley.

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