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'Dramatic' renewables expansion possible with smelter deal - Contact

'Dramatic' renewables expansion possible with smelter deal - Contact

Stable investment environment will encourage renewable development, and the smelter's life could yet be extended beyond 2024.

Gavin Evans 15 Jan 2021
Tiwai to operate for another four years

Tiwai to operate for another four years

Smelter to continue operating while longer-term deal on transmission costs continue, 

Gavin Evans 14 Jan 2021
High winter power prices loom as gas supply dwindles
Markets

High winter power prices loom as gas supply dwindles

Tight gas supplies and a La Nina weather pattern push up North Island electricity futures as coal imports boom.

Gavin Evans 12 Jan 2021
Dunedin council 'snuffing the life' out of town - Emerson
Property

Dunedin council 'snuffing the life' out of town - Emerson

"Enough is enough," as brewery founder could call it quits on restaurant venture in Middlemarch

Brent Melville 12 Jan 2021


Oliver Lewis
Oliver Lewis

Infrastructure Editor

Oliver Lewis won the local government reporting category at the 2023 Voyager Media Awards. He is part of our investigations unit and also covers infrastructure, housing and employment issues. Formerly with Stuff/The Press, Oliver has also written for the Guardian and North & South. 

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