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MightyRiverPower And Contact Signal Price Rise
Tuesday, 26 January 2010, 3:40 pm | NZ Energy and Environment Business Week
NZ Energy & Environment Business Week says leading suppliers MightyRiverPower and Contact have signalled they need prices to rise for new generation, particularly wind and hydro, to be viable. They warn current tariffs are too low to encourage ... More >>
Auckland Power Outage Should Never Have Happened
Tuesday, 3 November 2009, 12:53 pm | NZ Energy and Environment Business Week
NZ Energy & Environment Business Week reports the complacent state of NZ's approach to health and safety is on full display in the case of the national grid outage which left a chunk of Auckland all parts north without electricity last Thursday. This ... More >>
Meridian, Rio Tinto In Dispute Over Outage Costs
Wednesday, 6 May 2009, 12:43 pm | NZ Energy and Environment Business Week
New Zealand Energy & Environment Business Week reports Meridian Energy and Bluff smelter owner Rio Tinto have reached for their lawyers over who should pay the very substantial costs of the transformer failure which has reduced electricity demand ... More >>