Gentailers reporting season: juggling competing priorities

Gentailers reporting season: juggling competing priorities
The need for new electricity generation is expected to be a focus when the major electricity companies report results. (Image: Getty)
Ian Llewellyn
The four major electricity gentailers will soon release their annual reports and all eyes are on how they juggle related but competing priorities.There is the question of profit. Too high and it will raise questions of price-gouging, increasing the risk of political and regulatory intervention. Too low and it will bring into question the ability to meet other priorities.The next priority is the returns to shareholders. Investors want healthy dividends. This includes the government which owns 51% of the three state-owned gentailers.However, if p...

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