Episodes 98
Avg. Duration 8m
Activity Highly Active
Since Jan 2014
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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Schedule
Weekly
Format
Serial
Consistency
80%
Hosting
rss.libsyn.com

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About This Podcast

John Hancock is a New Zealand-based consultant who specialises in technology, market reform and incentive regulation in the energy & utilities sector. He has been writing a weekly blog in www.energynews.co.nz since August 2008 including audio interviews with some luminaries of energy market design. We're releasing new episodes through this feed and highlights of the back catologue. If you'd like to try a subscription to Energy News email [email protected] with the header Podcast.

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S12E3 Greg Houston (2012): High prices and market power

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When prices get to levels that attract a lot of attention … I've just finished a 6-part series as an introduction to the University of Canterbury's new short course on Navigating Regulatory…

S12E2 Greg Houston (2012): Why didn't we have capacity payments in NZ and Australia?

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S12E1 Greg Houston (2012) : Energy-only markets in the Deep South

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The particular features of electricity markets in Australia and New Zealand I've just finished a 6-part series as an introduction to the University of Canterbury's new short course on Navigating…

S11E6 Greg Houston: Future Proofing the Grid

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S11E5 Greg Houston: Utility Death Spirals

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S11E4 Greg Houston: Paradoxes of Pricing and Pole Crashing

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S2E3 Greg Houston: The Building Block Model

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S11E2 Greg Houston: Whatever you do, don't copy the Americans

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S11E1 Greg Houston: Regulatory Economics at the Coal Face

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S10E14 Jim Bushnell - Conduct provisions in electricity markets

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I'm talking to Jim Bushnell, an Associate Professor at the University of California, Davis – who was in New Zealand in August as the S.T. Lee fellow at the New Zealand Institute for the Study of…

S10E13 Jim Bushnell - When it's ok for banks to rort power markets (again)

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What JP Morgan did and what it says about US electric market design I'm talking to Jim Bushnell, an Associate Professor at the University of California, Davis – who was in New Zealand in August as…

S10E12 Enron 2 (again)

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Jim Bushnell on the current cases of price manipulation in US power markets I'm talking to Jim Bushnell, an Associate Professor at the University of California, Davis – who was in New Zealand in…

S10E11 Jim Bushnell - Enron's Californian Trading Strategies

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Entertaining and fully disclosed - but less potent than market power I'm talking to Jim Bushnell, an Associate Professor at the University of California, Davis – who was in New Zealand in August as…

S10E10 Jim Bushnell - Electricity and the career of Arnold Schwarzenegger

Jun 12, 2025 5m

You can take the politics out of power but... I'm talking to Jim Bushnell, an Associate Professor at the University of California, Davis – who was in New Zealand in August as the S.T. Lee fellow at…

S10E7 Jim Bushnell - Blackouts with surplus generation?

Jun 05, 2025 9m

How the Californian Power Crisis went from financial to physical I'm talking to Jim Bushnell, an Associate Professor at the University of California, Davis – who was in New Zealand in August as the…

S10E8 Jim Bushnell - What really happened in the California Power Crisis

May 29, 2025 7m

Bad market design or maverick trading? I'm talking to Jim Bushnell, an Associate Professor at the University of California, Davis – who was in New Zealand in August as the S. T. Lee fellow at the New…

S10E7 Jim Bushnell - Enron in California (take 2)

May 22, 2025 8m

What an expert thinks I'm talking to Jim Bushnell, an Associate Professor at the University of California, Davis – who was in New Zealand in August as the S.T. Lee fellow at the New Zealand Institute…

S10E6 Jim Bushnell - Single buyer markets

May 15, 2025 6m

Not again? I'm taking to Jim Bushnell, an Associate Professor at the University of California, Davis – who was in New Zealand in 2013. This is from a series of podcasts I recorded back then which…

S10E5 Jim Bushnell - How NZ Power looks from California

May 08, 2025 7m

Surprisingly familiar I'm talking to Jim Bushnell, an Associate Professor at the University of California, Davis – who was in New Zealand in 2013. This is from a series of podcasts I recorded back…

S10E4 Jim Bushnell - Prices were higher in states that deregulated

May 01, 2025 8m

...and increasing. Not a great scorecard I'm taking to Jim Bushnell, an Associate Professor at the University of California, Davis – who was in New Zealand in 2013. This is from a series of podcasts…

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