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Energy customers will pay high price for Brookfields’s bid for Origin

There are good competition reasons why monopoly distribution networks should not be owned by companies that also generate electricity.

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In today’s dreary world, it’s always nice to be surprised.

The Brookfield Asset Management-led bid for Origin Energy was one such surprise. It would also have surprised AGL’s shareholders, especially those who were sour that their board rejected Mike Cannon-Brookes’ now seemingly derisory offer to take control of AGL.

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Danny Price is managing director of Frontier Economics.
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