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why fixing NZ’s ‘broken’ electricity market is such a formidable challenge

  • Written by Geoff Bertram, Visiting Scholar, School of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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The growing view that New Zealand’s energy market is “broken” has brought with it a stream of suggestions for piecemeal changes that nibble at the edges of the problem, without tackling the real structural, legal and distributional issues.

Nor do those suggestions demonstrate how such changes would fit into a coherent...

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