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Suriname Electricity Sector Plan
Castalia developed an Electricity Sector Plan for Suriname which set out the financial, technical, institutional and governance steps to connect unelectrified households. More than 50,000 people lacked electricity service in Suriname, despite the country having more than $880 million in ... Read more
Expert Evidence on Fixed Line Access Determinations, Australia
Castalia helped Telstra argue for continued exemption from wholesale price regulation where competitive supply existed. Telstra’s competitors wanted the ACCC to force it to sell them wholesale services at regulated prices ... Read more
Economic Advice to Bidder on $3.25 billion Generation and Retail Privatization
Castalia helped Australia’s Origin Energy gain approval to bid for electricity retail and generation assets being privatized by the State of New South Wales. Origin already owned other power assets, so it had to show that acquiring more would not ... Read more
Cost Benefit Analysis of New Zealand’s Broadband Strategy
Castalia advised on the costs, benefits, and optimal design of a subsidy scheme to expand broadband access in New Zealand. Telecommunications service providers wanted to ensure that the scheme did not distort competition or waste resources ... Read more
Reviewing the Single Buyer Model for the Electricity Market, New Zealand
Castalia showed there was no evidence that a single-buyer of electricity would improve upon the wholesale electricity market. Opposition parties in New Zealand campaigned on a platform of introducing a single buyer ... Read more
Expert Evidence on Land Use Plan to Preserve Water Resources, New Zealand
We analysed various options to preserve water quality in rivers and streams in Canterbury, New Zealand. The regional council promulgated a plan that would have limited sustainable plantation forestry, without having considered other options to preserve river flows ... Read more
Strategy and Policy for a Carbon Market in New Zealand
Castalia helped Shell New Zealand prepare its response to the draft New Zealand Energy Strategy. The proposed strategy created unnecessary risks for the energy security and development of natural gas reserves ... Read more
Valuing Contact Energy for an Investor, New Zealand
Castalia advised an international strategic investor on its bid for a controlling stake in Contact Energy, one of New Zealand’s biggest energy providers. Our client needed a deep understanding of pricing, regulation and market rules in order to value Contact ... Read more
