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DEUN wants Government to look to the Future
Friday, 9 August 2013, 12:49 pm | Domestic Energy Users Network
DEUN has labeled the $30 million subsidy to Tiwai Point as self-serving on the part of the present government. “Globally, the aluminium industry is in trouble with the slump in prices since the global financial crisis”, says Sarah Free, secretary ... More >>
No smart meters without regulation
Sunday, 30 June 2013, 12:36 pm | Domestic Energy Users Network
NZ’s electricity is more expensive, less reliable and more environmentally damaging than it should be. The reason is that electricity retailers have developped smart-meter technology to serve their own ends. More >>
Selling the right to unregulated price-gouging
Tuesday, 6 March 2012, 9:40 pm | Domestic Energy Users Network
The mixed ownership model will privatise far more than State-owned power stations. It will sell the right to unregulated price-gouging. More >>
$89 per year cost to domestic consumers
Tuesday, 4 May 2010, 2:37 pm | Domestic Energy Users Network
Government’s electricity asset swap is set to cost domestic electricity consumers at least $89 each year. More >>
Commission must investigate retail electricity
Friday, 22 May 2009, 9:43 am | Domestic Energy Users Network
The Domestic Energy Users Network welcomes the spotlight thrown on excessive electricity charges to domestic consumers by the Commerce Commission's investigation of wholesale electricity costs. More >>
4 Cent electricity price effect from petroleum dev
Sunday, 19 April 2009, 8:30 pm | Domestic Energy Users Network
A new government initiative is estimated by DEUN to add four cents per unit to domestic electricity prices. More >>
Household energy initiatives must be replaced
Thursday, 12 March 2009, 9:13 am | Domestic Energy Users Network
D.E.U.N (Domestic Energy Users’ Network) is very concerned at the list of items on Government’s chopping block, in particular the loss of the Household Fund which would have mitigated some of the pressure on low-income purses for warming cold homes ... More >>
Retrofit initiative welcomed
Tuesday, 2 December 2008, 9:27 am | Domestic Energy Users Network
DEUN, the Domestic Energy Users’ Network, welcomes the proposal in “Better Performing Homes,” by the NZ Business Council for Sustainable Development, for a strategy to make up to a million houses more energy efficient. More >>
What priority Infrastructure development?
Wednesday, 22 October 2008, 2:43 pm | Domestic Energy Users Network
* Both major parties are promoting infrastructure spending to stimulate the economy during this recession and enable the New Zealand economy to move forward in the longer term. More >>
What future for the Household Energy Fund?
Tuesday, 14 October 2008, 5:09 pm | Domestic Energy Users Network
Householders want details from all parties on whether and how they would fund home energy efficiency. Labour promised this as part of emissions trading policy early last year, and has embodied the Home Energy Fund in legislation. Now the National ... More >>
Crown electricity revenues fall – why not prices?
Friday, 3 October 2008, 9:30 am | Domestic Energy Users Network
“Government revenues from the electricity sector fell this year, to $1.012 billion, down from $1.124 billion last year”, said Molly Melhuish, analyst for DEUN (Domestic Energy Users’ Network) today. More >>
Pricing Inquiry must be broadened
Wednesday, 1 October 2008, 5:19 pm | Domestic Energy Users Network
“An enquiry into electricity pricing, announced today, is desperately needed,” said Molly Melhuish of DEUN today. “But its scope needs to be far broader than the inquiries held to date.” More >>
"Competition" benefits suppliers not consumers
Tuesday, 30 September 2008, 1:29 pm | Domestic Energy Users Network
“Contact Energy must come clean about why they are hiking prices”, said Molly Melhuish, analyst for the Domestic Energy Users’ Network.” They are about to raise prices to their domestic customers in Wellington and the South Island by 10% ... More >>
DEUN On National's Energy Policy
Sunday, 17 August 2008, 12:56 am | Domestic Energy Users Network
The energy policy just released by the national party is a worrying return to ‘think big’. “It's about security through surplus of generation”, says Molly Melhuish of DEUN (Domestic Energy Users Network), “Surplus power will be soaked up by energy-intensive ... More >>
Domestic electricity users subsidising others
Friday, 11 July 2008, 4:30 pm | Domestic Energy Users Network
“Domestic electricity users are subsidising commercial and industrial electricity users”, said Molly Melhuish, analyst for the Domestic Energy Users’ Network (DEUN). More >>
