Delivered as part of ‘The discovery, assessment and use of evidence in regulatory and competition law decision making’, Annual Competition and Regulation Conference 2018
Delivered as part of ‘The discovery, assessment and use of evidence in regulatory and competition law decision making’, Annual Competition and Regulation Conference 2018
Delivered as part of ‘Regulation and public interest ourcomes in energy and water: moving beyond compliance and towards a sustainable ‘licence to operate’ for a disrupted world”, Hertford Seminar in Regulation 2018
The Australian state of Victoria will be implementing a new water pricing framework for the
next regulatory price review in 2018. The framework will apply to 16 of the State’s urban
water businesses and Southern Rural Water.
In May 2016, the Essential Services Commission (ESC), Victoria’s economic regulator,
released a position paper setting out a proposed, new pricing approach and invited
submissions on its proposal.3 Based on feedback received through this consultation process,
the ESC released a final report in October 2016 that sets out the water pricing framework and
approach that is to be implemented from 2018.4
Delivered as part of ‘The evolution of UK regulatory policy in retrospect: What has worked well? What hasn’t? What can be learned from experience?’, Annual Competition and Regulation Conference 2016
Delivered as part of ‘Issues in market and regulatory governance’, Annual Westminster Conference 2016
Privatisation and untoward consequences in water services: the regulator’s role
Utilities were privatised:-
to enable them to finance investment outside public expenditure controls,
to improve choice for customers through greater competition, and
to harness private enterprise to increase efficiency through incentive regulation.
A regulator (Ofwat) was appointed, independent of Ministers, with statutory duties to secure
that regulated companies carry out their legal duties, and can finance them, and to protect
customers from abuse of monopoly power.
Delivered as part of ‘Symposium’, Annual Competition and Regulation Conference 2015
Delivered as part of ‘Regulation of markets and networks in the UK: the state of play in a period of economic and political insecurity’, Annual Westminster Conference 2015
Delivered as part of ‘Coherence and stability in regulatory practice’, Annual Westminster Conference 2014
The Customer Forum was set up in September 2011 with three aims: to work with Scottish Water on a programme of customer research; in the light of this to understand and represent customer priorities to Scottish Water and to the Water Industry Commission for Scotland (WICS); and to seek to secure the most appropriate outcome for customers in the Strategic Review of Charges. In October 2012 the Forum was additionally asked to seek to agree a Business Plan with Scottish Water, consistent with Ministerial Objectives and with guidance notes that WICS would provide.
Delivered as part of ‘Reflections on the Government review of Ofwat’, Hertford Seminar in Regulation 2011
Article based on the text of the Beesley lecture series XIX delivered by Martin Cave in October 2009
PRESENTATION TO CAVE REVIEW OF COMPETITION & INNOVATION IN WATER MARKETS
UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK
9 JULY 2008
Our main conclusion is that competitive discovery processes have potentially very important roles to play in the water sector, particularly at the wholesale level, where we know that we know relatively little about the economic value of water, including its spatial and temporal variations, and how to use it most wisely.
This Report is published as a contribution to the current debate in the UK on the prospects for the development of competition in water, sewage and sewerage services (henceforth abbreviated to ‘water services’), and on the forms that such competition might take. It does not seek to cover all aspects of relevant policy in the sector, but rather focuses on a number of key issues, concepts and trade-offs that appear to be of central importance for policy development.
In France, the debate on regulation of public services often excludes the water sector, one of the few sectors not affected by post-war nationalisation. The industry is decentralisied, with quality and price placed on the large number of communes. The 1990s saw increasing social demands in favour of better regulaton.
This is a draft of chapter 8 of book, ‘Regulation of Network Utilities’ (edited by Claude Henry, Michel Matheu and Alain Jeunemaitre and published by OUP 2001) assessing new forms of public regulation in Europe
Between July 1995 and January 1996 a series of one-to-one reviews were carried out with all the regulatory bodies, seven investment analysts, five companies each in the electricity and water industries, British Gas (BG), British Telecom (BT and British Airports Authority (BAA). Issues focused on the sources and nature of risk, the cost of capital and other pressing concerns of interviewees. This document provides a summary of the views expressed.