Todd's Juliet Oliver – adding world-class value
2 Mar 2022Todd Energy employee Juliet Oliver was named Young Energy Professional of the Year at the 2021 New Zealand Energy Excellence Awards, for leading a company-wide project to reduce carbon emissions and extract more value from natural gas fields without undertaking more drilling.
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EECA supporting Kiwi businesses to decarbonise
28 Feb 2022EECA has its finger on the pulse of New Zealand business, working across industries to help organisations cut their energy costs and save emissions. It also regularly surveys the wider business community to test where they stand on climate change. Are they concerned? Taking action? How does it stack up against other business priorities?
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MainPower breaking from tradition
24 Feb 2022The 2021 Energy Excellence - Well-being Award went to MainPower for its industry-leading employee well-being initiative offering staff the opportunity to work a nine-day fortnight - a first for the electricity industry. One of the largest employers in the North Canterbury region, MainPower's flexible work hours option effectively gives staff a three-day weekend every second weekend and improves work-life balance.
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Training bright sparks in the Energy Industry
15 Feb 2022Downer New Zealand Utilities prides itself on providing its people with industry-leading training and development so they can bring their best to work every day. A great example is its energy team at its Whanganui Depot, who partner with accredited training provider iskills to train and assess new people coming into the industry as distribution line mechanics, electricians and technicians.
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Cyber risk and the energy sector – what can we expect in 2022?
9 Feb 2022Late last year, Brisbane based electricity company CS Energy narrowly escaped the full impacts of a sophisticated ransomware attack. Safety and operations at its Kogan Creek and Callide power stations were not impacted, nor was power generation and delivery, but had the attack been successful, power to millions of homes and businesses would have been disrupted.
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Considerations relating to Covid around your table booking
8 Feb 2022The New Zealand Energy Excellence Awards are scheduled to go ahead on 29 June at Te Pae in Christchurch. We acknowledge the country's current Covid red light setting. Clearly if this were still to be in place at the time of the awards, then the event would not be able to go ahead. We are confident that this will not be the case and the event can be held as scheduled. And we need to remain confident in the running of these sorts of events or it would be hard to get on with business.
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Inclusive energy products and services matter
3 Feb 20222021 New Zealand Energy Excellence Awards celebrated The Lines Company (TLC) and its accomplishments in taking home the inaugural Outcomes Award.
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Modernising asset management for Powerco
11 Jan 2022ArcGIS provides renewal planning tool to modernise asset management for Powerco Background Powerco, established from an amalgamation of former power boards, is now New Zealand's largest electricity distributor in terms of its network length (28,000km). It also has the second-largest number of electricity connections (336,000) serving communities in regional areas of New Zealand's North Island across very diverse geographic areas.
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Seeking innovation in disputes resolution
8 Dec 2021Not-for-profit organisation Utilities Disputes is offering a grant to fund research into utilities dispute resolution, and support leadership and diversity within the sector. Disputes can severely impact communities and organisations across essential utility services such as gas, electricity and water. Effective and faster access to dispute resolution services saves time, energy and money. UDL encourages applicants to be creative and to think broadly about research topics that impact dispute resolution and/or utilities, digging deep into issues influencing the wider sector.
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Insights into good wellbeing practices
30 Nov 2021nib is a proud sponsor of the New Zealand Energy Excellence Awards Well-being Award; we strongly believe that supporting staff and their wellbeing should be a top priority for businesses. This year, we teamed up with the Employment & Manufacturers Association (EMA) on our first Workplace Wellbeing Survey to better understand the link between wellbeing, retention, and productivity. Nearly 600 people took part, from leaders to frontline staff, across businesses of all sizes and sectors.
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