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Tim DenneTim Denne

Tim is an economist with 25 years experience in economic analysis applied to transactions, pricing and public policy.

He has worked in energy, natural resource, industrial, transport and environment sectors. Recently his work has included price and demand forecasts, tariff design, the analysis and design of government energy, climate change, environment (including waste, air and water quality) and transport policy, and in the design of industry-led producer responsibility systems and other policy response strategies. He was a member of the team designing the NZ Emissions Trading System (ETS), was involved in the original design of the EU ETS and the design of a NOx trading system for the UK.

Contact Details

Phone: 
+64 9 916 1960
Mobile: 
+64 9 21 346 556
Email: 
tim [dot] denne [at] covec [dot] co [dot] nz
Qualifications & Experience: 
MSc 1st Class Hons (Resource Management)
PhD, University of London
Senior Managing Consultant Oxford Economic Research Associates (OXERA)
Technical Director / Head of Environmental Economics, ERM
Deputy Director, Center for Clean Air Policy, Washington DC
Head of climate change team at the Ministry for the Environment

Expertise

aviation & surface transport
energy
environment & resource management
commercial transaction support
economic modelling & analysis
financial analysis
forecasting & projections
policy & cost-benefit analysis

Recent Work

Coal Prices in New Zealand Markets

Ministry of Economic Development (NZ)

An analysis of current and expected future prices of coal in domestic and export markets

application/pdf iconCoal Price Report.pdf

Deforestation Liabilities - Allocation to Pre-1990 Forests

Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry

This report analyses the costs and benefits of options for the inclusion of pre-1990 forests in the emissions trading system (ETS).

application/pdf iconDeforestation Liabilities.pdf

Design of voluntary product stewardship system

Australian Packaging Stewardship Forum

Assisted the Australian Packaging Stewardship Forum with the analysis and design of voluntary industry measures to support recycling.

Design of water tariffs

Analysis of short and long run marginal costs of supply, design of efficient tariff systems and analysis of impacts on different customer groups.

Emissions trading system design

Emissions Trading Group

Assisted in the design of the emissions trading system (ETS) including advice to the Emissions Trading Group, Technical Advisory Groups on Stationary Energy and Industrial Processes, and on Agriculture, and advice to the Climate Leadership Forum. The work included overall system design, impacts on emissions-intensive firms and design and implementation of the allocation system. 

Foreshore and Seabed

Advice on property rights economics and analysis of the options for legislative reform.

Socio-economic analysis of vehicle emissions policy

Ministry of Transport (NZ)

A social and economic analysis of a proposed system of emissions testing and emissions standards for vehicles.

application/pdf iconVehicle Fleet Emission Assessment Phase 1.pdf
application/pdf iconVehicle Fleet Emission Assessment Phase 2.pdf
application/pdf iconVehicle Fleet Emission Final Report.pdf

Transaction Services

Demand and supply forecasts plus asset valuations.

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