Updates

AWARDS FINALIST: Top Energy – affordable electricity

18 Jul 2023

In 2017, Top Energy set a goal to reduce its distribution lines charges from the upper quartile for cost per connection to the lower quartile by 2030. The firm recognised that many in the Far North, an economically challenged region, still struggle to meet basic needs, with electricity being one of their greatest expenses. This target was achieved in 2023. Ngawha The firm's Ngawha geothermal plant was generating about 70 per cent of the region's electricity needs. The Far North relied on electricity imported from the Waikato through Auckland.

AWARDS FINALIST: Fryer heat recovery cuts fuel use

17 Jul 2023

McCain Foods' Energy Transition Accelerator programme for its Timaru plant has helped forge a pathway to reduce its process heat demand and enable it to switch its boiler fuel to renewables. A key part of that programme was to capture energy from the frying process which would otherwise be lost to the atmosphere, and use it to supply energy to other upstream processes.

AWARDS FINALIST: Real-time pricing

13 Jul 2023

New generation types, grid scale and domestic batteries, distributed energy resources, and new technologies such as electric cars, home automation and AI have the potential to rapidly transform the energy sector. To enable this transformation to proceed at the necessary pace, the Electricity Authority, Transpower and NZX joined forces to deliver the biggest change to the wholesale electricity market since its inception in 1996. The outcome was innovative in its delivery and execution and will drive innovation across the entire energy sector.

AWARDS FINALIST: Beach Energy – a quintessential Taranaki partnership

12 Jul 2023

Through a shared vision of supporting the Taranaki community, Beach Energy has formed a unique partnership with the Taranaki Community Rugby Trust. Rugby is a core part of Taranaki's identity. By working together, Beach and the trust are supporting Taranaki children to get involved in community rugby at a young age while instilling values to last a lifetime. The farm

AWARDS FINALIST: Contact Energy – Growing Your Whānau

11 Jul 2023

Contact Energy's 'Growing your Whānau' policy was designed to be one of Aotearoa's most progressive parental leave approaches. The gentailer aims to be an inclusive and diverse workplace, and wanted to support their people through their journey of growing their whānau and as they transition back into the workplace.

The Electricity Authority empowering better energy outcomes for Aotearoa

10 Jul 2023

Consumers' interests are at the heart of everything we do at the Electricity Authority Te Mana Hiko. Our people are working hard to protect the interests of domestic and small business consumers, and create better energy outcomes for all New Zealanders A key way we do this is by ensuring the Electricity Participation Code (2010) is fit-for-purpose and enables innovation in the market so consumers can benefit from emerging technology to help power their lives.

Diversity illustrated by Energy Retailer of the Year finalists

10 Jul 2023

A broad range of Aotearoa New Zealand's energy retailers - electricity, natural gas, LPG and petroleum - submitted information on their innovative products and services, customer growth and satisfaction over the past year, for the New Zealand Energy Excellence Awards. Following evaluation by the judges, which proved to be both complex and challenging given the diversity of energy retailing in the motu, the finalists for the 2023 Energy Retailer of the Year have been chosen.

Energy Excellence Awards finalists named

21 Jun 2023

Finalists have been chosen for the 13th New Zealand Energy Excellence Awards. The 2023 event saw a record number of entries submitted over 10 categories, giving judges a trickier task than in previous years to narrow down the entries and select finalists. Chair of the judging panel, Lizzie Chambers of Carbon Match, noted that the calibre of the entries continues to impress.

Entries have closed for 2023

9 Jun 2023

Thank you to everyone who submitted an entry this year. Award entries for the 2023 New Zealand Energy Excellence Awards have officially closed. We received a record number of entries this year, from over 50 organisations throughout Aotearoa who have shared stories of success and achievement. Thank you to our judges for taking on the challenging task of choosing the finalists and winners this year. And thank you to all participants who dedicated their time and effort to submit their entries. We wish you the best of luck.

Z Energy boosts workplace wellbeing

27 Mar 2023

For the last three years, nib New Zealand has been the proud sponsor of the Well-being Award at the NZ Energy Excellence Awards, celebrating workplace wellbeing across the energy sector. Z Energy was the deserving winner of the award last year for its comprehensive, employee focused response to environmental factors that required their people to work from home indefinitely.