Jeremy Tustin

Senior Consultant

Jeremy Tustin is a senior consultant in ACIL Tasman’s Melbourne office. He has a degree in Economics from the University of Adelaide. His background is in competition and consumer protection and economic regulation, in particular in the energy and water sectors.

Jeremy has expertise in the National Electricity Market. In the electricity sector, he has advised on and prepared submissions relating to issues such as congestion management, appropriate mechanisms of support for renewable electricity generation and energy efficiency.

In his role with the Department of Treasury and Finance (SA), Jeremy advised the Treasurer on water policy, both rural and urban. He worked with the Office for Water Security to prepare South Australia’s water security plan, in particular to design an economic regulatory regime for the South Australian urban water sector and a cost benefit analysis of a number of possible means of meeting South Australia’s urban water demand.

Jeremy spent a number of years with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, where he conducted investigations and managed litigation in a range of industries and relating to a variety of alleged misconduct. Examples included alleged cartel behavior in the fire protection industry, collusion and alleged misuse of market power in country newspapers and mergers in various grocery industries. He prepared the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s submission to the (Cole) Royal Commission into the Building and Construction Industry.