Director
Matt is a highly experienced regulatory economist with over 20 years advising on the design and application of economic regulation across the Australian energy, transport and water infrastructure sectors.
He has strong technical expertise and experience regarding the preparation of regulatory revenue and price determinations, third party access arrangements, asset transaction-related due diligence and competition assessments.
Prior to joining Synergies in 2006, Matt worked as a Team Leader at the Queensland Competition Authority (QCA) for eight years where he supervised several access and revenue determination processes in the transport and energy sectors.
Matt also has prior lengthy experience in public sector policy development. This includes implementation of National Competition Policy in the mid-1990s when working at the Australian Treasury.
Contact details
Phone: +61 7 3227 9560
Email: m.rodgers@synergies.com.au
Case study
Synergies was engaged by Western Power to prepare an expert report on the outlook for wages, inflation and productivity to support its proposed access arrangement to the Economic Regulation Authority for the 2021-22 to 2026-27 regulatory period. Our expert report provided forecasts of Wage Price Index (WPI) for the Electricity, Gas, Water and Waste Services sector (EGWWS) and the Consumer Price Index (CPI), as well as for opex productivity.