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Meridian Energy monthly operating report for December 2024
Periodic Reports - Other, Company Presentation
- Jan 16, 2025
- 17 pages
April 2024
Green premiums are real, says aluminium boss
Electric vehicle makers are refusing to pay a green premium for low-carbon nickel but Capral says customers are paying an extra 5 per cent for clean aluminium.
- Peter Ker and Lap Phan
August 2023
Chook super fund’s tech bets pay off
After a second-half win, former Chanticleer columnist Tony Boyd’s SMSF is facing fresh challenges as it shifts from growth to long-term stable income.
- Tony Boyd
April 2023
The nine energy companies investors should target
Many of the largest renewable developers are private, while listed companies may offer indirect access or have to navigate their own transition.
- Colin Packham
February 2023
Why this value fund manager is ignoring last year’s earnings
As markets eye record levels, IML’s Tim Wood is screening out over-earning as COVID-19 super profits fade. The same goes for the float everyone’s talking about: Virgin.
- Vesna Poljak
February 2022
All the profit results for February 23, 2022
Results briefing | News and analysis on today’s profit results from Woolworths, WiseTech, APA, Carbon Revolution, Charter Hall Retail, Coronado, Domino’s Pizza, Healius, HT&E, Karoon Energy, McPherson’s, Pilbara Minerals, Scentre, Stockland, Wagners, Worley and Ventia Services.
January 2022
- Exclusive
- Mergers & acquisitions
ICG bulks up with Providence solar farms
The circa $100 million deal also gives Infrastructure Capital Group the opportunity to use Providence’s hydrogen energy storage technology at renewables sites.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
November 2021
GetUp! takes aim at Shell’s new electricity retailer
Shell’s acquisition of online green retailer Powershop faces a campaign by GetUp! urging its 185,000 customers to abandon the retailer the activist group helped grow.
- Elouise Fowler
Shell, ICG sign $729m Meridian Energy Australia deal
Global energy giant Shell and Australian investment manager Infrastructure Capital Group have agreed terms to acquire Meridian Energy’s Australian assets.
- Anthony Macdonald, Yolanda Redrup and Kanika Sood
August 2021
Lazard Australia signs up buyers for Meridian Energy
Lazard Australia has hit the switch on an auction for Kiwi energy company Meridian Energy’s Australian assets.
- Anthony Macdonald and Yolanda Redrup
April 2021
- Analysis
- Ethical investing
Kiwi energy players brace for BlackRock ETFs’ mega-selldown
The US funds giant will unload Contact Energy and Meridian Energy stock worth hundreds of millions on April 19, due to a quirk in a thematic ETF.
- Hans van Leeuwen
March 2021
Slim pickings in the stock market
The clean energy sector in the Australian stock market is not yet sufficiently investable, despite the phenomenal performance of a few.
- James Dunn
January 2021
Life extension for Rio Tinto's NZ aluminium smelter
Rising aluminium prices, softening power prices and government support is bolstering the survival chances of the five smelters across Australia and New Zealand.
- Peter Ker
October 2019
- Opinion
- Electricity
Rio plays Russian roulette with NZ aluminium
Power boss says he is not going to "take one for the team" after Rio launched a strategic review of one of the world's greenest aluminium smelters.
- Matthew Stevens
June 2019
Kogan's power play part of household one-stop shop strategy
The online retailer is entering the power and gas services market through an agreement with Powershop Australia, part of a broader household retail strategy.
- Tim Boyd
May 2019
Power CEOs set Morrison an energy challenge
Power firms are calling on the Morrison government to forge a bipartisan energy and climate policy to unlock private investment in new capacity.
- Ben Potter
April 2019
Wind farm nobbled by clean energy boom
AGL says the Silverton Wind Farm is being constrained as part of efforts to protect the grid, which is struggling to accommodate a runaway boom in wind and solar energy.
- Ben Potter
February 2018
Meridian beefs up on renewables to back Powershop retail growth
Meridian Energy's Powershop has significantly expanded in renewable energy, buying three hydropower plant and contracting with three new projects, in a move it expects to help lower prices for its retail customers.
- Updated
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
December 2015
Powershop wins customers on price, keeps them with 'feel-good' green factor
A consumer-savvy blend of low prices, digital tools and "feelgood" tactics is helping Kiwi-owned Powershop fend off hefty discounting from incumbent electricity retailers, to build up its customer base in the south-eastern states.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
January 2015
Farming proves Ethical enigma
The world is in dire need of food and therein lies a problem for the appropriately named superannuation fund Australian Ethical.
- Updated
- Sally Rose
September 2014
Upgrades to NZ power sector after National wins election
New Zealand’s electricity suppliers are enjoying a broad round of upgrades by equity analysts following the election victory of Prime Minister John Key which has effectively ended the threat of radical reforms.
- Updated
- Angela Macdonald-Smith