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Meridian and the Tiwai Point smelter, Contact, the gentailers, the gas shortage and Vector: the business of power in a hydro-dependent island grid.
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New Zealand’s Gas Shortage: Why Methanex Is Leaving and LNG May Arrive
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Four firms generate and sell most of New Zealand’s power; in August 2024 the lakes ran low and the model was put on trial.
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Meridian Energy: How a Hydro Giant Learned to Live With One Huge Smelter
New Zealand’s biggest generator and its biggest customer are locked together until 2044 — and both now profit from it.
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