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Power sector keen to avoid election-year focus
Infrastructure

Power sector keen to avoid election-year focus

Electricity retailers will be hoping recent low wholesale power prices persist into 2020 as the industry tries to avoid becoming a political football in election year.Eighteen months of sustained high prices came to an abrupt end late December as flooding in the lower South Islan...

Gavin Evans 31 Dec 2019
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OPINION: Climate policy confusion not helping
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Gavin Evans: OPINION: Climate policy confusion not helping

The government’s climate policy confusion is writ large in the discussion papers ministers James Shaw and Megan Woods hurled at the public at 5pm last Friday before shutting their offices for Christmas.Shaw’s paper on the emissions trading scheme calls for urgent action; Woods’ p...

Gavin Evans 24 Dec 2019
Windflow runs out of time, money
Infrastructure

Windflow runs out of time, money

Pioneering engineering business Windflow Technology is to be liquidated after running out of time and money to develop new markets for its two-bladed wind turbines.Shareholders last week voted to liquidate the Christchurch-based company and clear its remaining debts. Three of the...

Gavin Evans 24 Dec 2019
Fenglin tries a third wood venture, this time near Gisborne
Infrastructure

Fenglin tries a third wood venture, this time near Gisborne

China’s Guangxi Fenglin Wood Industry Group is in talks with Trust Tairawhiti to develop a wood processing facility near Gisborne.The firm, which had been planning a development at Kawerau, said it had recently signed a letter of intent to collaborate with the trust to develop a...

Gavin Evans 23 Dec 2019