Electricity Prices

[The BDI]

From the Consumer Article " The regulations were meant to help low-income households.ÔÇ» However, they have had the unintended consequence of penalising many of them.ÔÇ» This is because many low-income households have no choice but to use a lot of power ÔÇô such as those with a lot of people living under the same roof or in houses with poor insulation. These households pay the higher fixed rate, as well as having a big bill for all the power they have to use"┬á

I'll bet those with multiple families, for instance, (and therefore with multiple incomes) , with ten or so in a household pay less per person than we couple of OAPs do!  Well done Cindy.

Just for clarity I presume you're referring to our prime minister and not the governor general, Cindy Kiro, who has no responsibilities in this matter.

You seem wholly misguided in your apportionment of blame relating to the current state of New Zealand's electricity sector. The responsibility can more accurately be laid on two previous National governments, firstly the Shipley lead government of the 1990's who introduced their "Bright Future" economic initiative in 1999, and for changes to the retail sector of the electricity industry in 1998, otherwise known as the Bradford reforms. This was followed by the Key government's privatisation of a significant portion of our major electricity generating companies which has further compounded the issues from the Bradford reforms. A good summary of how NZ's electricity (doesn't) work here: https://thespinoff.co.nz/partner/31-08-2...o-be-fixed

If you take the time to view the Tony Seba presentation in my earlier post you'll see where energy supply systems are headed in the coming years. As the price of PV continues to fall it will reach 

My comment was not related "to the current state of New Zealand's electricity sector"   just to the change of regime, dictated not by John Key but the current government, relating to the canning of low user charges.. As I recall Max Bradford was not in sight either.

Perhaps you might now comment on the point I raised re relative costing in bigger/smaller households