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The government can restrain electricity prices without threatening to break up power companies. Its adviser says so

  • Written by Tony Wood, Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute
The government can restrain electricity prices without threatening to break up power companies. Its adviser says soVictoria's Loy Yang brown coal power station at night. Breaking up generation companies might do little to bring prices down.Shutterstock

Who wouldn’t want cheaper power?

And who wouldn’t enjoy a bit of a stoush between the big bad generators and the government, trying to break them up on our behalf?

Even if it was largely tangential to...

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