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Thanks Clint
Clint (of Hey Clint fame) tweeted a link to a spreadsheet of power prices since 1979 adjusted for inflation, per kWh. So this data is from the Green Party itself. So let’s have a look at in graphical...
View ArticleA tale of two responses
The Herald reported: In a 28 page paper delivered to an industry audience in Auckland, Dr Brent Layton argues current arrangements are working well but can be better, and that returning to a central...
View ArticleThe Layton paper
If you are actually interested in policy and analysis, rather than slogans, I recommend you spend an hour or so reading the 28 page paper from Electricity Authority Chair Brent Layton. It is a mine of...
View ArticleLabour lies on power prices
Radio NZ reports: Infrastructure investor Infratil says the Labour Party’s portrayal of how much New Zealand electricity prices have gone up in the past three years is misleading. A graph on Labour...
View ArticleMore on Transpower
I blogged yesterday on Labour’s silly claims about how the recent payment of a dividend from Transpower to the Government means that Kiwi households are paying hundreds of dollars too much in power...
View ArticleFallow on power
Brian Fallow writes at NZ Herald: The Labour Party probably regrets invoking the work of Professor Frank Wolak when making the case that New Zealand’s electricity system is broken and in need of a...
View ArticleWill Lianne allow Orion to price gouge?
Mike Yardley at The Press writes: Orion’s odious proposed price hike, which would gouge an extra $1000 off every Christchurch customer, over and above its existing 25 per cent share of power bills, has...
View ArticleMighty River to hold prices for 15 months
Some have scaremongered that moving from an SOE to a mixed ownership model will increase power prices. Well the Herald reports: MightyRiverPower, the first state-owned power company to be partially...
View ArticleCompetition and choice is great
Stuff reports: Power customers are switching companies at the highest rate for more than two years. Across all retailers in November, some 37,000 customers changed electricity company, according to a...
View ArticleWholesale electricity prices at a three year low
The Dom Post reports: Electricity prices are at a three-year low, at the very time people are using less power. But, despite the low prices – which have reached 48 times lower than the peak last year –...
View ArticleAnother made up figure
Stuff reports: And Labour Energy spokesman David Shearer said consumers would disagree with the authority’s claim that power prices were fair, after bills had risen 30 per cent in the past five years....
View ArticleSapere on Labour/Greens power policy
Business NZ has published a report by Sapere on the Labour/Greens power policy, which is effectively to destroy competition among generators and have the Government set wholesale prices. Sapere find:...
View ArticleFormer Labour energy minister slams Labour/Green power policy
Stuff reports: A former Labour energy minister has slammed the party’s proposed power policy, saying it would mostly benefit the rich while damaging the renewable energy sector. David Butcher, who now...
View ArticleLowest power price increase since 2001
Simon Bridges announced: New power price data released today shows the Government’s 2010 electricity reforms are making a real difference for consumers, says Energy and Resources Minister Simon...
View ArticleHeffernan says Labour’s power policy is nationalisation
The Herald reports: Doug Heffernan is not a fan of what Labour and the Greens plan to do to the electricity sector. Dr Heffernan retired last Friday as chief executive of Mighty River Power after...
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Issues that matter – the Economy
I think the economy matters and should be a much bigger issue in this election so I’ve put together almost a dozen graphs showing the difference between National and Labour’s record on 11 important...
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Electricity Prices
Backbenches have said a topic for Wednesday is electricity prices: POWER PRICES-A SHOCKER?: Nearly 80% of our electricity comes from renewable energy sources, primarily hydropower. Power prices have...
View ArticleHerald on power prices
The Herald reports: One in five Auckland households switched power companies last year, helping them save an average of $136 in the process. The Electricity Authority’s annual review of the industry’s...
View ArticleInflation remains low
Stats NZ reports: From the September 2014 quarter to the September 2015 quarter: The CPI increased 0.4 percent (0.4 percent in the year to the June 2015 quarter). Cigarettes and tobacco (up 13...
View ArticleLabour drop their worst policy
Stuff reports: Labour leader Andrew Little has all but dumped the party’s controversial NZ Power policy. In his opening address to the party’s annual conference in Palmerston North Little said the...
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