Media Advisory: Electricity Stakeholders Meeting
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