News from CEO – Mike Hopkins    Power outages dominated the energy news locally this week and while this story has received adequate coverage in the media around who or what was to blame, of interest to Transpower looking forward is the announcement out of the UK this week of a collaboration between its system…

News from CEO – Mike Hopkins      It’s been another full-on week for international, local and CEP news. Starting off close to home, we had a couple of great networking events this week enjoying excellent turnouts at both Wellington and Auckland. Numbers were boosted by members of the Young Energy Professionals Network and Sustainability…

News from CEO – Mike Hopkins      Firstly, an urgent call is going out for a CEP representative on the Standards New Zealand committee looking at standards for gas boilers. If you are interested in representing us on this committee please let me know straight away. Our opportunity to propose an expert emerged while…

News from CEO – Mike Hopkins      Finally, we have a climate emergency declared. You will have seen and heard plenty about that to have made up your minds on the efficacy of the declaration, and opinions will differ, so I shall move on swiftly. We held another, excellent networking event this week, this…

News from CEO – Mike Hopkins    Normally, we try to avoid duplicating stories that find their way into the mainstream media but this week there is good reason to reference a couple. There was an interesting story in Stuff this week about the ETS pricing cap. If you haven’t seen it, here’s a link.…