Ex-Transpower chair calls for major electricity reform

Outgoing Transpower chair Keith Turner says the country's electricity sector needs real reform and changes around the edges will not do Update: Friday June 13. In our live discussion on Wednesday, 4 June about electricity market reform, former Transpower Chair Keith Turner made statements about the consultancy leading the review, Frontier Economics. RNZ subsequently made that interview available online before undertaking an inquiry of its own regarding those statements. RNZ accepts that certain statements made by Mr Turner were inaccurate and without foundation. RNZ understands from Frontier that it has a strong reputation in its field in Australia and is actively engaging with almost every retail generator in that jurisdiction at the present time. RNZ unreservedly withdraws those statements and apologises to Frontier for publishing Mr Turner’s statements without undertaking any independent verification.