A podcast featuring energy economist Geoff Bertram critiques the Green Party's call for government intervention in electricity pricing, highlighting structural issues like monopolistic practices, government financial dependence on utility profits, and the potential of solar and风电
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Now the Green Party, as we've discussed on the show, the Green Party has written to government ministers urging them to intervene in the electricity market before winter. They want ministers to cap the increase to household power bills, demand that gen tailors scale up their hardship programs, and also give out low and then themselves as the government give out low interest loans. So houses can install solar. Jeff Bertram is an energy economist who's been working on getting power prices down since the 1980s, and he's with us. Hi. Mate, if you've been working at it since the 1980s, do you reckon this is your year?
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