Gas production about to 'fall off a cliff'
Infrastructure

Gas production about to 'fall off a cliff'

With demand high and supply falling, an energy company CEO says it's a good time to be selling gas in NZ.

Oliver Lewis 02 Nov 2022
New deal signed for delayed solar farms

New deal signed for delayed solar farms

It's hoped a delayed Kaitaia solar farm will now be generating power in mid-2023.

Ian Llewellyn 02 Nov 2022
High electricity prices rule out export hydrogen plant
Economy

High electricity prices rule out export hydrogen plant

Channel Infrastructure CEO Naomi James says the high cost of electricity is eroding the country’s international competitive advantage in low-cost, highly renewable energy.

Ian Llewellyn 01 Nov 2022
Memo to the energy minister from ex-Genesis CEO
Policy

Pattrick Smellie: Memo to the energy minister from ex-Genesis CEO

New Zealand is strangely unwilling to shake up its existing electricity market arrangements to stop coal prices making renewable energy more expensive than it needs to be, argues departing Genesis Energy CEO.

Pattrick Smellie 01 Nov 2022


Ian Llewellyn
Ian Llewellyn

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Ian is a journalist with more than 30 years' experience working in NZ and the UK. This has included radio, newspapers, and agencies with time also as a ministerial advisor and press secretary. Experience in the Press Gallery includes reporting for the Independent Business Weekly and more than 10 years with the New Zealand Press Association.

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