Contact gets gas to run TCC this winter
Contact Energy has agreed to buy gas from Methanex to run its 330MW Taranaki Combined Cycle generation plant this winter.
In a statement to the NZX, Contact said it would buy about 2.8PJ of gas over eight weeks, starting immediately.
'In light of the lowest first-quarter national hydro inflows on
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