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Contact Energy
We’re one of New Zealand’s leading energy generators and retailers, powering the country with electricity, natural gas and LPG.
Over our 20 year history we've built a flexible and largely renewable portfolio of electricity generation assets. We own and operate 11 power stations and produce 80-85% of our electricity from our renewable hydro and geothermal stations. Our natural gas and diesel fired power stations operate to ensure the lights stay on for New Zealanders when intermittent renewable sources like hydro and wind plant cannot operate.
Contact Energy - Latest News [Page 8]
Temporary Otahuhu outage
Thursday, 5 June 2008, 11:58 am | Contact Energy
Contact Energy yesterday took its 400 megawatt Otahuhu B gas-fired power station near Auckland off line to repair a fault. More >>
Origin Requests Trading Halt
Wednesday, 28 May 2008, 4:31 pm | Contact Energy
Origin Energy has announced to the ASX a request for a trading halt. More >>
Contact to recommission New Plymouth unit
Wednesday, 28 May 2008, 2:42 pm | Contact Energy
Contact Energy announced today that it intends to recommission one 100 megawatt gas-fired generator unit at its mothballed New Plymouth power station, in response to tight electricity supply conditions resulting from very low hydro lake storage levels and ... More >>
ETS will boost renewable generation, cut emissions
Thursday, 8 May 2008, 10:22 am | Contact Energy
The New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme has the potential to significantly increase investment in clean, renewable electricity generation projects and reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the sector, Contact Energy said today. More >>
Contact takes top spot in industry survey
Tuesday, 8 April 2008, 4:21 pm | Contact Energy
New research has confirmed that Contact is rated number one in the delivery of electricity hedge market services. Electricity hedges involve selling large volumes of electricity, at fixed prices, to commercial and industrial users, and other electricity generators ... More >>
Closure of New Plymouth power station
Thursday, 20 December 2007, 10:20 am | Contact Energy
Contact Energy today confirmed that the 31 year old New Plymouth power station will not be re-opened. More >>
Intentions to call in Te Mihi power station
Thursday, 20 December 2007, 10:18 am | Contact Energy
Contact Energy today said the Government’s intention to call in resource consent applications for Contact’s proposed 225 megawatt Te Mihi geothermal power station near Taupo was an important step towards achieving New Zealand’s goal of having ... More >>
Origin and Contact Acquire Oil & Gas Assets
Thursday, 20 December 2007, 10:14 am | Contact Energy
Origin Energy and Contact Energy announced today they will purchase certain of Swift Energy’s New Zealand oil and gas assets for approximately US$87.8 million (approximately NZ$115 million), delivering a range of benefits and synergies to each company. The ... More >>
Contact Confirms Binary Geothermal Plant
Monday, 19 November 2007, 4:14 pm | Contact Energy
Contact Energy today confirmed the company’s intent to develop an approximately 20 megawatt geothermal electricity generation binary plant at Centennial Drive in Taupo. More >>
Consent conditions clear way for Hawea generation
Monday, 19 November 2007, 2:55 pm | Contact Energy
Contact Energy today welcomed the resolution of final resource consent conditions for the construction of a small hydro generation scheme at the Lake Hawea control gates. More >>
Contact positioned for sustainable growth
Friday, 26 October 2007, 11:03 am | Contact Energy
Contact Energy’s Chairman, Grant King, today told Contact Energy’s annual meeting that despite a good result for the 2007 financial year, rising gas prices represented an ongoing challenge for the company. More >>
Contact unveils Waikato wind farm
Tuesday, 16 October 2007, 1:02 pm | Contact Energy
Contact Energy Chief Executive David Baldwin today provided details of a new wind farm the company is developing on farmland to the south of Port Waikato. The wind farm will be known as Hauāuru mā raki, meaning ‘north-west wind’. More >>
Contact welcomes commitment to quicker consenting
Friday, 12 October 2007, 8:19 am | Contact Energy
The Government’s announcement that it plans to streamline the resource consenting process for renewable generation projects will be critical to achieving the vision of 90 per cent of electricity coming from renewable sources by 2025, Contact Energy ... More >>
Annual Report, Notice of Annual Meeting available
Tuesday, 25 September 2007, 10:03 am | Contact Energy
Dividend statements and copies of Contact’s first Sustainability Report and Notice of Annual Meeting are currently being posted to shareholders, who can expect to receive their materials by early next week. More >>
90% renewables ambitious but achievable - Contact
Thursday, 20 September 2007, 2:17 pm | Contact Energy
Contact Energy today said the Government’s target of 90 per cent of electricity coming from renewable sources by 2025 was ambitious but possible, and the announcement of an emissions trading scheme was an important step towards achieving it. More >>
Contact helps Kiwis become carbon neutral
Thursday, 9 August 2007, 12:54 am | Contact Energy
Contact Energy today became New Zealand’s first energy company to add a new online tool to its website enabling consumers to become carbon neutral by paying to offset their carbon emissions. More >>
Application for new geothermal power station filed
Tuesday, 31 July 2007, 2:44 pm | Contact Energy
Contact Energy today filed resource consent applications for its proposed Te Mihi geothermal power station, which will be located to the north of Taupo. At around 225 megawatts, the new plant will provide enough renewable, baseload electricity ... More >>
Contact Welcomes Consent For New Hydro Scheme
Friday, 22 June 2007, 1:25 pm | Contact Energy
Contact Energy has welcomed the granting of resource consent for a small hydro electricity generation project at the Hawea Dam in Central Otago. More >>
Contact welcomes resolution of Clutha consents
Monday, 28 May 2007, 4:49 pm | Contact Energy
Contact Energy welcomed the resolution of Environment Court proceedings into the company’s operation of its Hawea, Roxburgh and Clyde hydro dams following the Court’s release of its final decision today confirming the conditions of consent for a further ... More >>
Hearings begin on Contact’s Hawea hydro project
Monday, 21 May 2007, 4:57 pm | Contact Energy
Resource consent hearings will begin on Wednesday 23 May into Contact Energy’s small-scale hydro electricity generation project at the Hawea Dam control gates in Central Otago. The hearings will be held at the Edgewater Resort, Wanaka, and are ... More >>
