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The trading of electricity on regulated markets has also been undergoing major new challenges as market rules change, new competitive technologies and suppliers enter the market and retailers develop complex new products that allow customers more flexibility.

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Greg Thorpe
Executive Director
Greg has 40 years experience in the electricity sector and also in gas. Greg assists businesses and market authorities operating under a range of different industry structures and market designs used in Australia and internationally. He sits on panels available to hear disputes under electricity and gas rules in Australia and Singapore, NBN wholesale disputes and provides expert witness statements in other jurisdictions.
Lance Hoch
Executive Director and Chairman
Lance has over 35 years of experience in policy, regulation and business strategy as it applies to electricity and gas distribution and retail businesses. Prior to founding Oakley Greenwood with his fellow directors, he served as Vice President with CRA International.
Alex Cruickshank
Principal Consultant
Alex is a very experienced public policy and regulatory executive with broad experience in energy markets, having worked in both public and private sectors. Alex has deep experience in market design and rules development. He was involved in the initial design of the National Electricity Market; examining capacity markets versus energy only markets, network development approaches and access rules. He continued in the developmental role with the rules body (the National Electricity Code Administrator) as Principal Consultant Code Development and oversaw all rules change applications and changes.
Cau Thai
Principal Consultant
Cau is a senior leader and energy market expert with more than 20 years working in the energy/utilities industry and with solid interdisciplinary expertise in energy market, power system engineering, optimisation, economics, business management and applied finance. He has extensive experience in providing advice on strategic directions, trading and investment opportunities in response to changing market structures, trends and energy policy (renewable energy, carbon emission).
Bill Williams
Principal Consultant
Bill is an experienced Commercial/BD executive who has worked across the energy sector including oil & gas, gas infrastructure, electricity infrastructure and energy trading. Core strengths include asset commercialisation strategies, deal optimisation and structuring, negotiation and contract documentation, financial analysis and study management.
Matt Currie
Principal Consultant
Matt has over 25 years’ experience within the electricity generation sector. His experience includes both the NEM and the WA, NT and North Queensland remote energy sector. Matt’s has a deep understanding of the economics of power generation and fuel supply and has a strong commercial focus. This has been demonstrated through his ability to provide off-takers with innovative power supply solutions taking advantage of emerging technologies particularly renewables and Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS).

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