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Disputed transmission pricing proposals on slow track

Disputed transmission pricing proposals on slow track

By Pattrick Smellie June 5 (BusinessDesk) – Controversial proposals to overhaul how to share the costs of the national electricity grid will no longer be pursued with such urgency, although they remain one of the Electricity Authority’s top 10 priorities. EA chief executive Car...

04 Jun 2013
NZ building work expands for 6th quarter, spurred by biggest residential spurt in a decade

NZ building work expands for 6th quarter, spurred by biggest residential spurt in a decade

By Paul McBeth June 5 (BusinessDesk) - New Zealand’s building work grew for a sixth quarter in the first three months of the year, spurred by the biggest expansion in residential construction in more than a decade. The volume of building work put in place rose a seasonally adj...

04 Jun 2013
Electricity regulator lays into sector critics’ inadequate research

Electricity regulator lays into sector critics’ inadequate research

By Pattrick Smellie June 4 (BusinessDesk) – The chairman of the Electricity Authority has let rip at the critics of current electricity market arrangements, singling out three individuals for leading the charge that has produced the Labour and Green parties’ central buyer elect...

04 Jun 2013