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Doug is an electrical engineer with broad experience in the electrical supply industry and particularly in electricity market and power systems operations. Doug has held senior management positions in power systems design, project management, and operations.
Doug has over 40 years’ experience in electricity generation, transmission and systems operation. His roles in Transpower included Wholesale Market Project Manager, managing Transpower’s efforts in the design and development of the governance, regulation and rules of the New Zealand Electricity Market (NZEM), the corresponding design and implementation of the NZEM scheduling, dispatch, information and pricing systems and business processes and organisational structures.
In the last 10 years, Doug was accountable for the oversight, coordination and management of Transpower’s wholesale market development strategy and implementation. He was a member of the Market Pricing Working Group, the Security Constraints Working Group and the Electricity Governance Board Rules Rationalisation Working Group. Allied tasks included ownership of the projects implementing approved changes to market systems and business processes.
Doug has a BE Electrical from the University of Canterbury.