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Energy efficiency is just as important in summer

Monday, 13 December 2004, 12:32 am | Meridian Energy

Meridian Energy is urging its customers not to forget the energy efficiency message this summer. More >>

Meridian Energy rewards loyalty

Monday, 6 December 2004, 12:42 am | Meridian Energy

Meridian Energy is giving away four energy efficient and environmentally friendly Toyota Prius cars. More >>

Meridian Energy welcomes High Court decision

Tuesday, 30 November 2004, 4:26 pm | Meridian Energy

State-owned power generator and retailer Meridian Energy has welcomed today's decision from the High Court on the status of its water rights in the Upper Waitaki. Chief Executive Keith Turner says the decision is an unequivocal endorsement of Meridian¹s ... More >>

Meridian withdraws Project Aqua applications

Monday, 22 November 2004, 5:08 pm | Meridian Energy

Meridian Energy has withdrawn its applications for resource consent for its discontinued Project Aqua hydro development on the Lower Waitaki River. More >>

2005 Katherine Mansfield fellow

Wednesday, 10 November 2004, 4:08 pm | Meridian Energy

Wellington poet, fiction writer and critic Ian Wedde, has been announced the winner of the 2005 Meridian Energy Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship at an event held last night by Meridian Energy. More >>

Meridian Energy result buoyed by plentiful water

Thursday, 4 November 2004, 11:16 am | Meridian Energy

Heavy inflows into Meridian Energy’s storage lakes have resulted in a strong 2004 year result for the state-owned power generator and retailer. Meridian today reported a full-year profit of $132.9 million which Chairman Francis Small says is largely ... More >>

Biggest wind farm now delivering full power

Monday, 1 November 2004, 9:16 am | Meridian Energy

Meridian Energy’s Te Apiti wind farm in the Tararua ranges is now capable of delivering its full 90 megawatt (MW) capacity to the national grid – enough to power some 45,000 average homes. More >>

Meridian Energy Celebrity Walk Week

Wednesday, 27 October 2004, 1:03 pm | Meridian Energy

Dust off your boots, grab your friends and head to the Tuatapere Hump Ridge Track in Southland for the Meridian Energy Celebrity Walk Week from 17-21 November. More >>

Recreational Flow For Tekapo River

Thursday, 21 October 2004, 11:58 am | Meridian Energy

Recreational flow releases for Tekapo River to attract whitewater canoeing enthusiasts More >>

Final wind turbine installed

Monday, 18 October 2004, 11:32 am | Meridian Energy

Meridian Energy’s Te Apiti wind farm development in the Tararua ranges reached a major milestone at the weekend, with the completion of the project’s 55th and last wind turbine on Saturday. More >>

Final wind turbine installed as project nears end

Monday, 18 October 2004, 12:07 am | Meridian Energy

Meridian Energy’s Te Apiti wind farm development in the Tararua ranges reached a major milestone at the weekend, with the completion of the project’s 55th and last wind turbine on Saturday. The final component put in place was the 70m-diameter rotor, ... More >>

Electricity demand growth continues in September

Friday, 15 October 2004, 2:56 pm | Meridian Energy

This year's trend of strong electricity demand continued in September, following record demand over the cold winter months. More >>

Electricity demand reaches record levels

Friday, 24 September 2004, 3:28 pm | Meridian Energy

High electricity demand over the winter has been met by very strong hydro power generation as a result of greater than average inflows into the big hydro storage lakes. More >>

Mackenzie Basin water users agree to work together

Tuesday, 21 September 2004, 1:15 pm | Meridian Energy

The major water users in the Mackenzie Basin, Meridian Energy and farmers have agreed to begin negotiations on how irrigation can be provided to farmers in the upper Waitaki catchment. They will also seek to negotiate a common approach to water allocation ... More >>