Giving a voice to small electricity consumers in Aotearoa
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New Zealand small electricity consumer sentiment survey 2024
Our areas of focus
Our role is to look at opportunities to make change in the electricity sector, to help make it fairer for everyone. We focus our efforts on topics that affect small electricity consumers in particular.
Latest updates
2024
Financeability of electricity distribution services – Further consultation
2024
Disclosure rules on gentailer profits
News
26 Jun 2024
2024 Consumer Sentiment Survey results released
Electricity costs are weighing heavily on households and small businesses – and planned price rises could cause hardship for small electricity consumers.
13 Jun 2024
Are big electricity companies making excess profits?
Research by NZIER has found that new disclosure rules to inform consumers about profits being made in the electricity sector are not fit for purpose.
29 May 2024
Council wants more scrutiny of proposed increase in line charges
The Council urges the Commerce Commission to carefully consider all the alternatives before confirming its draft decision on transmission and power line charges.
27 May 2024
Deborah Hart's speech at the Reducing Energy Hardship conference
Read the full speech from our Chair, Deborah Hart, at Ara Ake's conference in May 2024