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Why gender diversity matters

Hancock's blog - February 23, 2022 21:00 - 8 minutes
We’re talking to Julie MacArthur who’s just returned to Canada as the Chair in Reimagining Capitalism at Royal Roads University in Victoria, British Columbia about her new research study: Transition Inequity: Trends and Impacts of Gendered Employment in New Zealand’s Energy Industries. Last we...

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Trends in NZ energy gender balance

Hancock's blog - February 16, 2022 21:00 - 8 minutes
We’re talking to Julie MacArthur who’s just returned to Canada as the Chair in Reimagining Capitalism at Royal Roads University in Victoria, British Columbia about her new research study: Transition Inequity: Trends and Impacts of Gendered Employment in New Zealand’s Energy Industries. Last we...

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Gender balance in the NZ energy sector

Hancock's blog - February 09, 2022 21:00 - 10 minutes
We’re talking to Julie MacArthur who’s just returned to Canada as the Chair in Reimagining Capitalism at Royal Roads University in Victoria, British Columbia about her new research study: Transition Inequity: Trends and Impacts of Gendered Employment in New Zealand’s Energy Industries. Last we...

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Gender bias in NZ legislation?

Hancock's blog - February 02, 2022 19:00 - 10 minutes
We’re talking to Julie MacArthur who’s just returned to Canada as the Chair in Reimagining Capitalism at Royal Roads University in Victoria, British Columbia about her new research study: Transition Inequity: Trends and Impacts of Gendered Employment in New Zealand’s Energy Industries. Last we...

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Gender stats in the global energy sector

Hancock's blog - January 26, 2022 19:00 - 9 minutes
We’re talking to Julie MacArthur who’s just returned to Canada as the Chair in Reimagining Capitalism at Royal Roads University in Victoria, British Columbia about her new research study on gendered employment in New Zealand's energy industries. We  looked at some pretty reactionary comments f...

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Misogyny in the Energy News readership?

Hancock's blog - January 19, 2022 19:00 - 10 minutes
We’re talking to Julie MacArthur who’s just returned to Canada as the Chair in Reimagining Capitalism at Royal Roads University in Victoria, Canada about her new research study: Transition Inequity: Trends and Impacts of Gendered Employment in New Zealand’s Energy Industries. We start with som...

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Gendered employment in New Zealand’s energy industries

Hancock's blog - January 13, 2022 12:00 - 7 minutes
A while ago a couple of my listeners pointed out that nearly everyone I’ve interviewed on the podcast is a white middle-aged man.  It was a fair criticism and a bit of a reflection of the world I come from.  Turns out that we do have a bit of a problem with employment inequity in the sector thou...

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How regulated companies should conduct themselves with their regulators

Hancock's blog - January 05, 2022 23:00 - 10 minutes
I’m talking to Tim Tutton who was in the mainstream of UK electricity and gas market reform from the late 1980s, including eight years as Director of Regulation at National Grid. Tim wrote a stimulating paper Does Ofgem have a future? for the economic consultancy Oxera in May this year.  It’s ...

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Not competition in the electricity market but competition for the market

Hancock's blog - January 01, 2022 23:00 - 10 minutes
I’m talking to Tim Tutton who was in the mainstream of UK electricity and gas market reform from the late 1980s, including eight years as Director of Regulation at National Grid. Tim wrote a stimulating paper Does Ofgem have a future? for the economic consultancy Oxera in May this year. It’s a...

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Why the Americans may have better utility regulation than the rest of us

Hancock's blog - December 31, 2021 23:00 - 9 minutes
I’m talking to Tim Tutton who was in the mainstream of UK electricity and gas market reform from the late 1980s, including 8 years as Director of Regulation at National Grid. Tim wrote a stimulating paper Does Ofgem have a future? for the economic consultancy Oxera in May this year. It’s a pro...

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The one about a foreign utility investor and the UK government

Hancock's blog - December 25, 2021 23:00 - 7 minutes
I’m talking to Tim Tutton who was in the mainstream of UK electricity and gas market reform from the late 1980s, including 8 years as Director of Regulation at National Grid. Tim wrote a stimulating paper Does Ofgem have a future? for the economic consultancy Oxera in May this year. It’s a pro...

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Why do governments use agencies in gas and electricity?

Hancock's blog - December 22, 2021 23:00 - 9 minutes
I’m talking to Tim Tutton who was in the mainstream of UK electricity and gas market reform from the late 1980s, including eight years as Director of Regulation at National Grid. Tim wrote a stimulating paper Does Ofgem have a future? for the economic consultancy Oxera in May this year. It’s a...

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The difference between an electricity regulator and the Soviet Army

Hancock's blog - December 15, 2021 23:00 - 9 minutes
I’m talking to Tim Tutton who was in the mainstream of UK electricity and gas market reform from the late 1980s, including eight  years as Director of Regulation at National Grid. Tim wrote a stimulating paper Does Ofgem have a future? for the economic consultancy Oxera in May this year. It’s ...

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Ofgem’s role in the complete rethink of UK energy policy

Hancock's blog - December 08, 2021 22:28 - 10 minutes
I’m talking to Tim Tutton who was in the mainstream of UK electricity and gas market reform from the late 1980s, concluding with eight years as Director of Regulation at National Grid. Tim wrote a stimulating paper Does Ofgem have a future? for the economic consultancy Oxera in May this year. ...

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Do industry-specific regulators have a future?

Hancock's blog - December 01, 2021 22:35 - 8 minutes
I’m talking to Tim Tutton who was in the mainstream of UK electricity and gas market reform from the late 1980s, including eight years as Director of Regulation at National Grid. Tim wrote a stimulating paper Does Ofgem have a future? for the economic consultancy Oxera in May this year. It’s a...

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Larry Ruff – gas transmission capacity in New Zealand

Hancock's blog - November 24, 2021 19:17 - 9 minutes
I’m talking to Larry Ruff, another giant of energy market reform. Larry worked with Bill Hogan, whom many of you enjoyed listening to on the podcast last year, on the design of the UK and New Zealand electricity markets in the 1990s, but he’s probably best known as the brain behind Victoria’s ga...

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Larry Ruff – market carriage: a solution to gas capacity trading

Hancock's blog - November 17, 2021 23:01 - 7 minutes
I’m talking to Larry Ruff, another giant of energy market reform. Larry worked with Bill Hogan, whom many of you enjoyed listening to on the podcast last year, on the design of the UK and New Zealand electricity markets in the 1990s but he’s probably best known as the brain behind Victoria’s gas...

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Larry Ruff – to trade gas capacity, you can’t drop the gas off somewhere else or dump it into a sink

Hancock's blog - November 10, 2021 21:33 - 9 minutes
I’m talking to Larry Ruff, another giant of energy market reform. Larry worked with Bill Hogan, whom many of you enjoyed listening to on the podcast last year, on the design of the UK and New Zealand electricity markets in the 1990s but he’s probably best known as the brain behind Victoria’s gas...

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Larry Ruff - contract paths make as little sense in gas as they do in electricity

Hancock's blog - November 03, 2021 23:43 - 12 minutes
I’m talking to Larry Ruff, another giant of energy market reform. Larry worked with Bill Hogan, whom many of you enjoyed listening to on the podcast last year, on the design of the UK and New Zealand electricity markets in the 1990s but he’s probably best known as the brain behind Victoria’s gas...

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Larry Ruff - the unavoidable role of a system operator in capacity markets

Hancock's blog - October 27, 2021 22:18 - 12 minutes
I’m talking to Larry Ruff, another giant of energy market reform. Larry worked with Bill Hogan, whom many of you enjoyed listening to on the podcast earlier in the year, on the design of the UK and New Zealand electricity markets in the 1990s but he’s probably best known as the brain behind Vict...

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Larry Ruff - pipelines aren't bundles of straws

Hancock's blog - October 20, 2021 23:06 - 12 minutes
I’m talking to Larry Ruff, another giant of energy market reform. Larry worked with Bill Hogan, whom many of you enjoyed listening to on the podcast earlier in the year, on the design of the UK and New Zealand electricity markets in the 1990s but he’s probably best known as the brain behind Vict...

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Larry Ruff – the history of gas transmission

Hancock's blog - October 13, 2021 23:32 - 11 minutes
I’m talking to Larry Ruff, another giant of energy market reform. Larry worked with Bill Hogan, whom many of you enjoyed listening to on the podcast last year, on the design of the UK and New Zealand electricity markets in the 1990s but he’s probably best known as the brain behind Victoria’s gas...

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Larry Ruff and NZ gas market design

Hancock's blog - October 05, 2021 03:57 - 7 minutes
I’m talking to Larry Ruff, another giant of energy market reform. Larry worked with Bill Hogan, whom many of you enjoyed listening to on the podcast earlier in the year, on the design of the UK and New Zealand electricity markets in the 1990s but he’s probably best known as the brain behind Vict...

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Bill Hogan - Parting thoughts on FTRs for New Zealand

Hancock's blog - October 03, 2021 00:09 - 10 minutes
That Bill Hogan is a Professor of Energy Policy at Harvard University and Director of the enormously influential Harvard Electricity Policy Group is impressive. Locally, however, he has particular status as the guiding mind behind the design of New Zealand's wholesale electricity market. One o...

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What NZ's FTRs will look like and how they may develop

Hancock's blog - October 03, 2021 00:00 - 10 minutes
That Bill Hogan is a Professor of Energy Policy at Harvard University and director of the enormously influential Harvard Electricity Policy Group is impressive. Locally, however, he has particular status as the guiding mind behind the design of New Zealand's wholesale electricity market. One o...

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New Zealand’s journey to implementing FTRs

Hancock's blog - October 02, 2021 23:36 - 9 minutes
That Bill Hogan is a Professor of Energy Policy at Harvard University and Director of the enormously influential Harvard Electricity Policy Group is impressive. Locally, however, he has particular status as the Guiding Mind behind the design of New Zealand's wholesale electricity market. One o...

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Bill Hogan on two more insights from US experience with FTRs

Hancock's blog - October 02, 2021 23:25 - 10 minutes
That Bill Hogan is a Professor of Energy Policy at Harvard University and Director of the enormously influential Harvard Electricity Policy Group is impressive. Locally, however, he has particular status as the guiding mind behind the design of New Zealand's wholesale electricity market. One o...

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Bill Hogan on FTRs in NZ’s original design and early experience from the US

Hancock's blog - October 02, 2021 23:13 - 10 minutes
That Bill Hogan is a Professor of Energy Policy at Harvard University and Director of the enormously influential Harvard Electricity Policy Group is impressive. Locally, however, he has particular status as the guiding mind behind the design of New Zealand's wholesale electricity market. One o...

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Bill Hogan on how FTRs provide enough money to cover all location risk

Hancock's blog - September 27, 2021 08:26 - 7 minutes
That Bill Hogan is a Professor of Energy Policy at Harvard University and Director of the enormously influential Harvard Electricity Policy Group is impressive. Locally, however, he has particular status as the guiding mind behind the design of New Zealand's wholesale electricity market. One o...

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Bill Hogan on what we need FTRs for

Hancock's blog - September 27, 2021 06:48 - 8 minutes
That Bill Hogan is a Professor of Energy Policy at Harvard University and Director of the enormously influential Harvard Electricity Policy Group is impressive. Locally, however, he has particular status as the guiding mind behind the design of New Zealand's wholesale electricity market. One o...

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