Recent publications in Occasional Paper
Resource adequacy and efficient infrastructure investment
Chapter 11 of Competitive Electricity Markets
The emergence of Australia's electricity market
Int. J. Global Energy Issues, Vol. 29, Nos. 1/2, 2008
The Politics and Economics of Climate Change
The Electricity Industry in Australia: Problems Along the Way to a National Electricity Market
Carbon Trading and Other Emission Abatement Measures
Although having decided not to ratify Kyoto, Australian Governments have undertaken a range of measures that in effect accede to its obligations. Australia has in place costly abatement measures in the form of taxes and command and control.
Meeting Gas and Power Infrastructure Needs
We spent half a century of government intervention overinvesting in power stations, over-manning all parts of gas and electricity supply and observing a dismal outcome in terms of reliability. But it is self-evident that a competitive environment...
Is There Market Power in Australian Electricity Generation?
How the Deities Approached Monopoly
International Power
The Hazelwood Power Station is one of four key baseload electricity generators operating in Victoria. Considered almost obsolete at the time of its sale in 1997, it has been refurbished and transformed into a productive and reliable asset and its...
Gas in the Parer Review
The Parer report was fundamentally about the electricity market. Gas and to an even greater extent environment and regional issues were tacked on.
Power to the People: Privatisation and Deregulation of the Electricity Industry in Australia
Private ownership uses the same insights that Chadwick discovered two centuries ago. It is based on incentives and, harnessed with competition to meet market needs, is the most powerful means of promoting efficiency and high living standards.