Electric companies policy makers and regulators around the world are facing calls for smart grid updates. Sometimes these upgrades make business sense and are undertaken by electric companies as has been the case with some smart grid investments in New Zealand. Frequently however the calls for...

This presentation looks at:Discussion of peculiarly grid regulation issues A quick stock take of the state of "onr market": particularly concerning the interisland link Competition and pricing the HVDC interconnection

Matt Burgess presented Dynamic Electricity Pricing in California: Do Customers Respond? at an ISCR seminar May 2006.

John Hancock, CGNZ, presented Twelve Months On: Blacking out through Reforming the Unreformable? contrasting international perspectives on the electricity blackouts experienced in London, Italy and New York and how electricity markets will work to ensure sufficient supply and reliable delivery...

Margaret Beardow presented Changing Attitudes to Regulation: International Evidence at the Contemporary Issues in Regulatory Theory and Practice half day workshop in Wellington in March 2005.

This presentation looks at:What is a Merits Review? The Australian Experience in Energy Regulation The New Zealand Proposal A Better Approach?

In this paper we explain the operation and design of day-ahead markets in an electricity market. Day-ahead markets complement real-time markets which must be run to ensure balance in the system and offer a number of benefits to electricity market participants. We argue that in the context of the...

Paul Quilkey presented, Importance and Evolution of forward markets in electricity at an ISCR half day seminar.

This seminar will update developments on changes to Part 4A of the Commerce Act as outlined in the Commerce Amendment Bill 2008. Topics will include: (1) purpose statements (2) thresholds/default price-quality paths and problems in transition (3) the scope and meaning of input methodologies (4)...

Providing the right incentives for investment continues to be a major source of concern in the New Zealand electricity sector. This seminar outlines a decentralised incentive mechanism designed to encourage transmission investment within a competitive market environment based on a system that...