Media Advisory: Electricity Stakeholders Meeting
Monday, 13 August 2001, 9:57 am
Press Release: New Zealand Government
Monday, 13 August 2001 Media Advisory
Electricity
stakeholders meeting
Minister of Energy Pete Hodgson
will meet electricity industry stakeholders at 1.30pm today
to discuss initiatives relating to the current electricity
supply situation.
Participants in the meeting will
include electricity generators and retailers, the national
grid company Transpower, the Electricity Networks
Association (representing line companies), consumer groups,
the wholesale electricity market operator M-co and officials
from the Ministry of Economic Development, the Energy
Efficiency and Conservation Authority and the Ministry for
the Environment.
The meetings are being held weekly, at Mr
Hodgson's request.
The meeting will be on level 11, Bowen
House. News media are welcome to video or photograph people
entering the meeting, but should then leave the floor. There
will be a press conference following the meeting in the
Minister's office, level 19, Bowen House, at 3.15pm.
Press
conference:
3.15pm, Monday, 13 August 2001
Office of
Hon Pete Hodgson, Minister of Energy
Level 19, Bowen
House
Wellington
ENDS
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