Improving markets, regulation, and sector structure
For investors and asset owners,
we advocate market designs that will enable investor returns while serving the public interest. We help them comply with regulations set by competition authorities, protect themselves from market manipulation, and profit from sector transformation caused by disruptive technologies and regulatory changes
For international agencies and governments,
we design markets for vital public services, Design regulation to control monopoly power and to limit negative externalities , and transform sector performance through appropriate policies and sector designs.
Sectors
Review of the Electricity Pricing Commissioner’s Power, Australia
Castalia provided an independent opinion to the New South Wales Government and Parliament on the adequacy of the powers of the new Electricity Price Commissioner. The Government promised that a planned electricity privatization would not increase electricity prices, but there ... 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
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
Competition Effects of Physiotherapy Contracts, New Zealand
Castalia gave expert evidence that a new contracting model to pay physiotherapists did not breach competition law. Physiotherapists had claimed that the new contracts, which prevented them from charging patients additional out-of-pocket fees, limited competition and amounted to price-fixing ... Read more
Reforming Bermuda’s Electricity Sector Overhaul
Castalia led a comprehensive advisory that reformed Bermuda’s electricity sector, created a new Electricity Sector Policy and the New Electricity Act, a Fuels Policy, and allowed completing its first Integrated Resource Plan and procuring the first large-scale solar PV project ... Read more
National Ports Regulator Technical Assistance, Vanuatu
Castalia established the rationale for economic regulation of ports in Vanuatu, along with the framework of the regulating agency. The Government of Vanuatu did not have the institutional capacity to regulate the economic activity of its ports and manage the ... Read more
Jamaica Water Policy and Rural Water Strategy
Castalia drafted Jamaica’s Water Policy and Rural Water Strategy. Jamaica needed to make its water supply sustainable through: developing Integrated Water Resource Management approaches; ensuring cost-recovery; enabling private investment and competition; and using optimal technologies for rural water supply ... Read more
