Energy
Environment
Climate Change
Vital role for NZ’s biggest gas user in climate transition
The continued operation of the country's biggest gas user emerges as essential to keeping electricity prices low through the 2030s.
Infrastructure
Mercury slashes earnings guidance 11%
High wholesale spot prices and low rainfall have hurt Mercury's full-year earnings prospects, along with an unexpected breakdown at one of its geothermal plants.
Infrastructure
Analysts suspect smelter won't close after a 'cat and mouse' game
Tiwai Point aluminium smelter’s operations will probably be extended past 2024 but it will pay a higher price for electricity.
Infrastructure
Wholesale electricity prices continue to soar
The Canterbury deluge doesn't appear to have helped South Island hydro lakes.
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Ian Llewellyn
News Editor
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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