Energy
Policy
Analysis
Learning to love Rio Tinto – can it be done?
Rio Tinto has a lifelong history of being unlikeable. Its sudden desire to keep the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter open raises questions not only of electricity price, but of trust.
Heavy rain brings some hydro relief but cost pressures remain
Rain in the hydro catchments rapidly brought down wholesale electricity prices, but long-term costs for thermal fuel will put pressure on prices.
Policy
Ardern puts green hydrogen high on the agenda
Climate change policies that also reduce reliance on high-cost international fossil fuel are a key part of the government's focus in 2022.
Markets
New geothermal plant to cost more, but deliver more electricity
Contact's new Tauhara power station will now cost an estimated $818m to build, a $140m increase.
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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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