Electricity Prices

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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

The point you raised is just collateral damage resulting from the Electricity Price Review being little more than rearranging deckchairs on the Titanic that is the cluster f*ck instigated by the combination of the two previous government dalliances into our electricity market.

We are low users due to the inputs we gain from our PV and so will see our fixed 'supply' charges double from this month forward, but for us this will signal the start of the end so far as being connected to the grid is concerned. Battery storage options are getting cheaper as fixed charges increase (along with the 'energy' charges) so both factors serve to make going off-grid increasingly more viable.