Electricity Markets

Professor Hugh Outhred

B.Sc.(Mathematics & Physics), University of Sydney, 1967
B.E. in Electrical Engineering (1st Class Hons), University of Sydney, 1969
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, University of Sydney, 1974

Hugh Outhred is a Senior Visiting Fellow, University of New South Wales and Managing Director, Ipen Pty Ltd. Hugh’s research interests include electricity industry organisation and regulation, as well as new technologies for electricity production and use.

Hugh has held visiting positions at a number of institutions, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Energy Authority of NSW, University of California Berkeley and Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Madrid. He has also worked as a consultant to governments and industry on electricity industry organisation and regulation, electricity pricing, renewable energy, energy efficiency and improving the sustainability of the electricity industry.

Hugh was Director of the Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets at UNSW between 2004 and 2007.