New Zealand electricity generating and retailing company
Contact Energy Limited
Company type
Public
Traded as
NZX: CEN
Industry
Electricity generation Electricity retailing Natural gas wholesaling Natural gas retailing LPG retailing
Founded
1996; 28 years ago (1996)
Headquarters
Wellington
,
New Zealand
Key people
Robert McDonald, Chair Mike Fuge, Chief Executive
Revenue
NZ$2.57 billion (2021)[1]
Operating income
NZ$187 million (2021)[1]
Net income
NZ$185 million (2021)[1]
Total assets
NZ$5.03 billion (2021)[1]
Total equity
NZ$2.93 billion (2021)[1]
Number of employees
945 (June 2021)[1]
Website
www.contact.co.nz
Contact Energy Limited is a New Zealand electricity generator, a wholesaler of natural gas, and a retailer of electricity, natural gas, broadband and LPG.
It is the second-largest electricity generator in New Zealand (after Meridian Energy), generating 23% of all electricity in 2014, and has the second-largest market share (22%) of electricity retailers (after Genesis Energy).[2] Contact owns and operates five geothermal power stations near Taupō, natural-gas turbine facilities at Hamilton and at Stratford in Taranaki, two hydroelectric dams on the Clutha River, and a diesel fuelled station near Napier.
Contact originated with the partitioning of the Electricity Corporation of New Zealand in 1996, and publicly listed in 1999.
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^"Energy in New Zealand 2015" (PDF). Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. 2015. Archived from the original on 15 February 2016.
ContactEnergy Limited is a New Zealand electricity generator, a wholesaler of natural gas, and a retailer of electricity, natural gas, broadband and LPG...
contact or contactor in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Contact may refer to: Contact (geology), a common geological feature Contact lens or contact...
ContactEnergy, Genesis Energy, Mercury Energy, Meridian Energy. These four together produce about 90% of New Zealand's electricity. Meridian Energy,...
A contactor is an electrically controlled switch used for switching an electrical power circuit. A contactor is typically controlled by a circuit which...
so that energy is often reduced by such processes as passivation or adsorption. The most common way to measure surface energy is through contact angle experiments...
mechanical system or constant-energy hypersurface, which, being codimension one, has odd dimension. Like symplectic geometry, contact geometry has broad applications...
power that opened in 2011. The station is now owned and operated by ContactEnergy. Construction of the Stratford Gas Turbine Plant, a 200 MW power station...
equation relates the contact angle, a geometric property of a sessile droplet to the bulk thermodynamics, the energy at the three phase contact boundary, and...
A contact explosive is a chemical substance that explodes violently when it is exposed to a relatively small amount of energy (e.g. friction, pressure...
Field and Edison Mission Energy's 51.4% interest in New Zealand's ContactEnergy. Origin sold its 53% shareholding in ContactEnergy to the market in 2015...
A contact force is any force that occurs as a result of two objects making contact with each other. Contact forces are very common and are responsible...
electrical contact is an electrical circuit component found in electrical switches, relays, connectors and circuit breakers. Each contact is a piece of...
River / Mata-Au near the town of Clyde. It is owned and operated by ContactEnergy. There was considerable controversy when the dam was planned because...
a thermodynamic system is said to be in thermal contact with another system if it can exchange energy through the process of heat. Perfect thermal isolation...
plastic bodies in static or dynamic contact. Contact mechanics provides necessary information for the safe and energy efficient design of technical systems...
(wet steam) in the world, and it is currently owned and operated by ContactEnergy. A binary cycle power plant was constructed in 2005 to use lower-temperature...
sector is dominated by five companies: ContactEnergy, Genesis Energy, Meridian Energy, Mercury Energy and Manawa Energy. Transmission – Transpower, a state-owned...
Ōtāhuhu C, was never built. The stations were owned by ContactEnergy. The site was sold by Contact in 2016. The first generating units at Ōtāhuhu were open...
locations. Many schools of energy healing exist using many names: for example, biofield energy healing, spiritual healing, contact healing, distant healing...
geothermal energy among International Energy Agency (IEA) countries in both total energy supply and electricity generation. Geothermal energy constitutes...
gas industry". ContactEnergy. Archived from the original on 2017-04-06. Retrieved 28 November 2015. "Gas distribution". ContactEnergy. Retrieved 28 November...
wetting, the contact angle, and the shape of meniscus. When cohesion dominates (specifically, adhesion energy is less than half of cohesion energy) the wetting...
Zealand. Previously known as Tauhara 2, the project is being developed by ContactEnergy and Tauhara Moana Trust and is expected to be operational in the third...
Genesis Energy Limited in June 2010. Plans to apply for resource consent were abandoned in April 2011. In 2023 the proposal was revived by ContactEnergy. It...
Both ohmic contacts and Schottky barriers are dependent on the Schottky barrier height, which sets the threshold for the excess energy an electron requires...
Electrical contact resistance (ECR, or simply contact resistance) is resistance to the flow of electric current caused by incomplete contact of the surfaces...
and opened a fellmongery and wool scouring business (according to Todd Energy) in the small Central Otago town of Heriot. By 1929, it had evolved into...
due to low hydro lake levels, the New Zealand government commissioned ContactEnergy to build reserve generation on the Whirinaki site. This plant was intended...
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NZ$2.57 billion (2021)[1]