Want electricity reform? Start by giving power back to the states
- Written by Bruce Mountain, Director, Carbon and Energy Markets., Victoria University
In 1999, Australians were paying some of the lowest electricity prices in the world. Now they are among the highest. What went wrong?
Back then, the electricity network in the southern and eastern states of Australia had just been reformed to create a regional wholesale market, called the National Electricity Market. Some states – Victoria...







