Marianne Lourey

Executive Director

Marianne Lourey recently joined ACIL Tasman’s Melbourne office as a Senior Consultant. Marianne has more than 25 years experience, predominantly in the energy sector, working in, and consulting to, government, regulators and industry. She has worked in a broad range of areas including energy and climate change policy, economic regulation, energy supply security, business management, business development, manufacturing and power system planning.

In recent years Marianne has had extensive experience in climate change policy particularly as for the energy sector, including the development of market based mechanisms (emissions trading, renewable energy target schemes and energy efficiency target schemes) and feed-in tariffs, and policies to facilitate the deployment of new low emissions technologies (including renewable energy technologies, carbon capture and storage, and required transmission infrastructure).

Marianne has been involved in all stages of the economic regulatory process, with a particular emphasis on demand forecasts, capital and operating expenditure forecasts, service standards and incentive mechanisms, metering, public lighting, and monitoring and compliance regimes.

She was heavily involved with the introduction of Full Retail Competition in the electricity and gas markets, including the development of regulatory instruments.

Marianne holds an honours degree in Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering and has a Masters of Business Administration