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Meridian blamed for $80m of power cost over-charging
Infrastructure

Meridian blamed for $80m of power cost over-charging

Electricity consumers may have been over-charged by as much as $80 million in December after generators charged more for power than usual when hydro-lakes were full and spilling, the Electricity Authority says. Meridian Energy, the country’s biggest generator, chose to reduce...

Gavin Evans 30 Jun 2020
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Unexpected slide in Pohokura gas production
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Unexpected slide in Pohokura gas production

Output from the country’s biggest gas field has fallen about 15 percent the past six weeks and operator OMV is yet to establish why. The offshore Pohokura field, the subject of a series of maintenance shuts during the past two years, delivered about 172 terajoules of gas yeste...

Gavin Evans 29 Jun 2020
Rakon shares climb as earnings beat guidance
Infrastructure

Rakon shares climb as earnings beat guidance

Rakon shares rose 9.6 percent after the telecommunications component maker reported better than expected earnings and said the outlook, while murky, was generally positive.The company reported underlying earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation of $14.8 millio...

Paul McBeth 29 Jun 2020
Limited visibility for managed isolation planning
Infrastructure

Limited visibility for managed isolation planning

The country’s managed isolation and quarantine units are struggling to keep up with a rapidly increasing number of returning Kiwis, with limited visibility into airline manifests. A review found that while the system is not broken, it is under “extreme stress” and not able to...

Paul McBeth 29 Jun 2020