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Model for Private Finance of Power Transmission, Africa
Castalia wrote Linking Up: Public-Private Partnerships in Power Transmission in Africa, a guide to enabling private finance of electricity transmission infrastructure in Africa. Reliance on public finance had constrained investment in power transmission, with the result that electricity was more ... Read more
Natural Gas Development: Open Access and On-Shore Uses, Papua New Guinea
Castalia developed policies requiring firms exporting natural gas from Papua New Guinea to also supply on-shore customers, and to allow other firms to access their pipelines. While PNG’s natural gas export business was flourishing, local customers could not access gas, ... Read more
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
