Episode Details
Back to Episodes
Geoff Bertram: energy economist on the Greens calling for the Government to bring down power prices
Published 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Description
The Green Party's written to Government ministers asking them to use their majority owner status to pressure major gentailers to reduce power prices.
Co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick says shareholding ministers, Simeon Brown and Nicola Willis, can write to the gentailers and require them to do more on energy hardship programmes.
She suggests they could also call for retail prices not to surpass inflation.
Energy economist Geoff Bertram says it's time action was taken to bring down the impact of the major gentailers.
LISTEN ABOVE
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.