Electricity

The What's My Number campaign has been credited with spurring competition between electricity retailers.

Consumers have been warned to brace for electricity price increases, and a longtime industry watcher says the prices will hit householders hardest.

Daily energy demands reached record levels on Tuesday in many regions across New Zealand, including Otago and Southland.

Multiple power outages in Port Chalmers caused frustration for customers and Delta engineers yesterday.

Parliament has passed legislation designed to increase competition in the electricity industry but the Government isn't promising lower prices.

Further southern wind-farm development is hamstrung as long as South Island generators carried the cost of the Cook Strait electricity cable, TrustPower chief executive Vince Hawksworth says.

Clutha District Mayor Juno Hayes reckons the $75 million Mahinerangi wind farm could help his region and Dunedin City emerge from the recession.

Queenstown households used 90% more power in June than in April, an online electricity retailer says.

Four nominations have been received for three vacancies on the Waitaki Power Trust.

Taieri farmer wants TrustPower to audit its transmission lines after eight of his dairy cows were electrocuted when a 33kV line taking electricity from the Waipori Dam dropped across his farm.