New Zealand’s four largest electricity distributors come together to offer businesses payment deferrals during COVID-19
Electricity lines companies Orion, Powerco, Vector and Wellington Electricity serve 60% of New Zealand’s electricity customers. The group has worked together to provide network payment deferral programmes to business customers on their networks 
© 2024 sharechat.co.nz Fri, 17 Apr 4:55pm ComCom gives provisional thumbs up to Powerco price hike
The Commerce Commission has given the early all-clear for lines company Powerco to raise prices to fund a $1.27 billion upgrade of its network over the next five years.The regulator's draft ruling today would let the New Plymouth-based...
© 2024 NZ Herald Thu, 16 Nov 10:15am  Electricity users, retailers push back against Powerco's price hike plan
Big electricity users and generator-retailers are wary that customers will bear an unfair burden from lines company Powerco's plan to fund a $1.4 billion network upgrade through a hike in regulated prices. The New Plymouth-based...
© 2024 NZ Herald Tue, 3 Oct 2:15pm PowerCo to lay 9.2km of underground cables as part of $11m project
Construction of an $11 million underground powerline covering nearly 10 kilometres of New Plymouth is due to start next month.
© 2024 Stuff.co.nz Wed, 20 Sep 5:45pm CORRECT: NZ Windfarms to buy Te Rere Hau wind farm distribution assets from Powerco for $17.3M
(Fixes assets to be purchased in headline, lede and 2nd paragraph) NZ Windfarms plans to buy the distribution and transmission assets attached to its Te Rere Hau wind farm near Palmerston North that it has leased from lines company Powerco for almost a d
© 2024 sharechat.co.nz Thu, 3 Aug 4:25pm Powerco price rise decision not due until March 2018
Householders will have to wait until next year to learn if their bills will increase by up to $41 a year to pay for a billion dollar investment in the electricity lines network.
© 2024 Stuff.co.nz Thu, 22 Jun 1:55pm Powerco looks to price hike to cover cost of $1.4b network upgrade
A $1.4 billion plan to upgrade ageing electricity networks in the North Island will push up customers' power bills.
© 2024 Stuff.co.nz Wed, 18 Jan 9:25am Powerco to spend $1.4 billion on updating North Island's ageing electricity network
A $1.4 billion plan to upgrade ageing electricity networks in the North Island will push up customers' power bills.
© 2024 Stuff.co.nz Wed, 18 Jan 8:35am Virginia Rose James pleads guilty to $700,000 Powerco theft
A Taranaki woman has pleaded guilty to defrauding Powerco of $705,000.
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Coronavirus: Powerco workers unhappy they're told to do non-urgent work
Powerco workers say they're being abused for shutting off power to homes, company says it's essential work.
© 2024 Stuff.co.nz Thu, 26 Mar 3:15pm Regulator approves applications by Powerco and Wellington Electricity to lift prices
The Commerce Commission has approved an application by lines company Powerco to raise prices to fund a $1.27 billion upgrade of its network. It also gave Wellington Electricity a green light to increase prices to fund its earthquake readiness plan
© 2024 sharechat.co.nz Wed, 28 Mar 10:03am Regulator gives provisional thumbs up to Powerco price hike for $1.27 bln upgrade
The Commerce Commission has given the early all-clear for lines company Powerco to raise prices to fund a $1.27 billion upgrade of its network over the next five years
© 2024 sharechat.co.nz Thu, 16 Nov 9:45am Electricity users, retailers push back against Powerco's price hike plan
Big electricity users and generator-retailers are wary that customers will bear an unfair burden from lines company Powerco's plan to fund a $1.4 billion network upgrade through a hike in regulated prices
© 2024 sharechat.co.nz Tue, 3 Oct 1:55pm NZ Windfarms to buy Te Rere Hau assets for $17.3m
NZ Windfarms plans to buy the distribution and transmission assets attached to its Te Rere Hau wind farm near Palmerston North that it has leased from lines company Powerco for almost a decade for $17.3 million.Palmerston North-based...
© 2024 NZ Herald Thu, 3 Aug 4:55pm  NZ Windfarms to buy Te Rere Hau wind farm from Powerco for $17.3M
NZ Windfarms plans to buy the Te Rere Hau wind farm near Palmerston North that it has leased from lines company Powerco for almost a decade for $17.3 million
© 2024 sharechat.co.nz Thu, 3 Aug 3:15pm A slight rise in electricity cost will help fund Powerco's upgrade project in Taranaki
Household power bills could rise by up to $1.50 a week next year to pay towards a multi-million dollar project to improve the region's ageing electricity network.
© 2024 Stuff.co.nz Thu, 19 Jan 9:35am  Powerco eyes price hikes to pay for $1.4 billion network upgrade
Powerco, the gas and electricity lines company owned by fund managers QIC and AMP Capital, wants to raise prices to help fund an upgrade to networks across the North Island that it says could cost as much as $1.4 billion
© 2024 sharechat.co.nz Tue, 17 Jan 3:06pm
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