Contact's Barnes to depart

Contact's Barnes to depart
Gavin Evans
By Gavin Evans June 17 (BusinessDesk) - Contact Energy chief executive Dennis Barnes is to leave the business early next year. Barnes joined Contact from former parent company Origin Energy in April 2011. During his tenure the firm reworked its Wairakei geothermal field, including commissioning a bioreactor to reduce discharges into the Waikato River and constructing its new Te Mihi power station there. At the same time the firm optimised the Ahuroa gas storage facility and Stratford peakers, shut the Otahuhu B power station in Auck...

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