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2018 WACC methodology review for WA railway networks
Synergies prepared a submission on behalf of Arc Infrastructure for the Economic Regulation Authority’s (ERA) 2018 WACC methodology review for regulated railways in Western Australia.
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Risk Comparison Between Aurizon Network and Energy and Water Networks
Synergies examined the risk profile of Aurizon Network in order to assess comparability with regulated energy and water networks. The report concluded that, while regulation can modify the impact of commercial and market risks on a business, it cannot fundamentally alter the nature of the market risks borne by a business.
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ACRI Industry Stakeholder Survey 2016
Synergies was engaged by ACRI to design and implement a major survey of stakeholders operating in the rail industry. The aim of the survey was to identify stakeholder perspectives about the challenges and opportunities facing the Australian rail industry, together with collecting views about strategic priorities going forward. The survey provided fresh insights about issues and stakeholder concerns. ACRI has published our report on its website and intends to commission a follow up survey to ...
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Public Transport Investment – The Value of Action versus the Cost of Inaction
Synergies Economic Consulting, in partnership with GHD, was engaged by the Australasian Railway Association (ARA) to examine traffic congestion in Australia’s capital cities and the value of action versus the cost of inaction. It focussed on the core solution to alleviating congestion, which is investment in public transport investment, particularly heavy and light rail.
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Aurizon Network’s Commercial and Regulatory Risks
Synergies provided advice to QR National supporting that a new railway which would connect a mine in the Galilee Basin with the existing Central Queensland Coal Network would provide an integrated (above and below rail) haulage service to its customer/s. The question was raised as to what the implications would be for QRN if the project was instead undertaken under a functional service delivery model in which the various elements were delivered by the relevant ...
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Proposed declaration of Sucrogen’s Herbert River tramway service network
Synergies was engaged by Corrs to assist with the preparation of its submission to the NCC in relation to an access declaration application by the North Queensland Bio-Energy Corporation Ltd (NQBE) in regards to below rail services provided on Sucrogen’s Tramway Service Network in the Herbert River district. Following the release of the NCC’s draft recommendation not to declare the below rail services of the Tramway Service Network, we prepared a supplementary expert report in ...
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ACCC’s Draft Decision re ARTC’s Hunter Valley Coal Network
This report was prepared by Synergies Economic Consulting (Synergies) at the request of the Australian Rail and Track Corporation (ARTC). The report is in response to the ACCC‟s Draft Decision in relation to the Hunter Valley Coal Network access undertaking. We have been requested to respond to four Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) parameters proposed by the ACCC.
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Service Quality Incentive Mechanism for QR Network
QR Network requested Synergies Economic Consulting review the principles underpinning the design of such a regime, and how it might be applied to QR Network, while having regard to its existing incentives and obligations. Our findings are outlined in the attached report.
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Adjusting for Expected Inflation: Submission to IPART
Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC) requested Synergies Economic Consulting (Synergies) to provide an opinion regarding the use of inflation-indexed swaps to estimate inflation. Historically, consistent with other regulators, lPART has applied the Fisher equation to observed yields for nominal Commonwealth Government bonds and Commonwealth Government indexed bonds.
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Review of Coal Supply Chains
Synergies reviewed the role of government in export coal supply chains in Australia which involved a report presenting a detailed description of the coal supply chains and the issues affecting the supply chain performance, and anther report which examined the existing role of government and the status of current initiatives in coal supply chains.
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Benefits of Grain Express
Synergies performed a detailed analysis of the grain supply chain in Western Australia for Cooperative Bulk Handlers (CBH). This analysis involved an assessment of the grain supply chain, mapping the current information and physical flows, identifying the relevant interfaces of the logistics chain and the impediments to the supply chain achieving greater efficiency. The advice culminated in the development of a solution to reform the supply chain in order to overcome these impediments.
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