Focus on network pricing reform, emissions - Aust energy regulator
By Gavin Evans April 9 (BusinessDesk) - Adjusting electricity network pricing to enable the uptake of new technologies is an “absolute prerequisite” for good long-term energy policy, a visiting Australian regulator says. Cost-reflective pricing – which attempts to charge ho...
Withers to step down from Mercury board in September
By Gavin Evans April 9 (BusinessDesk) - Mercury NZ chair Joan Withers will step down in September after 10 years as a director. Withers had some time ago signaled her intention to leave the company this year and no let-up is expected during her final six months with the com...
Electricity panel warned against politicising transmission pricing
By Gavin Evans April 8 (BusinessDesk) - One of the country’s smallest electricity network companies has urged the government’s electricity pricing review panel not to invite politicians into the debate on transmission pricing. Waipukurau-based Centralines says the panel’s s...
Kaipara settlement trust joins one billion tree scheme
By Gavin Evans April 5 (BusinessDesk) - The government has secured its second-largest forestry planting partnership as part of its one billion tree programme. Te Uru Rakau – the Ministry of Primary Industries’ forestry arm – has agreed to joint venture with Kaipara-based Te...
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