Recent publications
The Appropriate Treatment of Company Taxation in Determining a Revenue Cap for a Regulated Business
Price and Access Regulation of Gas Transmission Pipelines
Submission Regarding the Regulatory Considerations of the NCC And ACCC on the Eastern Gas Pipeline and the ACCC on the Central West Pipeline
Broadcasting Planning and Entrenched Protection of Incumbent Broadcasters
Broadcasting planning and licensing should be primarily a technical function facilitating orderly operation of broadcasting services. Instead, policy makers and regulators have used it as a tool for economic control of the nature and rate of...
Wind Power and Other Renewables
In relation to combating the supposed global warming trend, environmentalists are fond of saying, ‘If nuclear is the answer, we are asking the wrong question’.
The Challenge of a Deregulated Market
Most of us remember the confident forecasts of 1994 where the world's most prestigious consultancies estimated the shadow price of new generation at something like $38 per MWh. Those forecasts still haunt the smaller consumer as they are the basis...
Firm Access Rights: The Key to Efficient Management of Transmission
A Submission to the NECA Transmission Pricing Review
Victoria's 2001 Electricity Distribution Price Review
Submission to the Office of the Regulator General (ORG) On The 2001 Price Review
Regulatory Pricing and Access Issues
The issues for Victoria and Australia are: * the structure and powers of the regulatory agencies * the services to be regulated * the standards that should be regulated * the "just" price for the regulated services * ensuring information is...
Privatising Victoria's Electricity Distribution
In October 1994 the Victorian industry was restructured. Five DB's were created and Generation Victoria disaggregated down to four individual base load power stations (including Loy Yang B then under construction), one portfolio of hydro plant and...
The Economic and Market Benefits of By-Pass
Over the longer term, successful economic performance requires market competition with established property rights.