September 22, 2021
Let’s imagine you’re an energy retailer operating in one of the world’s most challenging energy markets dominated by six incumbent operators. Costs are high and margins are gradually getting eroded via competition and aggressive regulation. Your...
September 9, 2021
Humans’ need for speed might be our undoing. Road vehicles - cars, motorbikes, trucks and buses - account for nearly 25 percent of global carbon emissions. Modern life may have made us all...
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September 1, 2021
Being able to multi-task used to be seen as the apex of human achievement. If you could simultaneously do a bunch of things at once, to a high standard, you were winning at life. Then research...
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August 19, 2021
As a vehicle to meet New Zealand’s 2050 net-zero emissions goals, the transition to renewable energy is now firmly in the fast lane. Gentailer giants Contact Energy and Meridian Energy are...
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August 11, 2021
Business success is generally assumed to rely on a combination of strategy, expertise and execution: you identify a problem to solve, work out a way to solve it and then do it in a skilful and...
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August 9, 2021
Speed isn’t everything in business, but it certainly brings an edge of competitive advantage to the table. The faster and more skillfully you can move, the more likely you are to get ahead of the...
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August 3, 2021
In a world mostly starved for good news on the climate front, Meridian Energy and Contact Energy’s joint investigations into the potential of a large-scale renewable hydrogen production facility...
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July 26, 2021
US business guru and author Verne Harnish says that “scaling up is every entrepreneur’s dream — and nightmare”. Harnish reckons “hypergrowth is terrifying” and can lead to the demise of many great...
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July 19, 2021
Australia may be the world’s smallest continent, but it has one of the longest interconnected power systems on earth. About 10 million customers receive electricity via Australia’s National...
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July 5, 2021
If you take a helicopter view, the energy sector seems poised for a successful transition to a brave, new, decarbonised world. In New Zealand, the country’s largest grid-connected solar power plant
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