Premium Company Profile: Contact Energy Limited

Introduction

Contact Energy's objective is to create a flexible and balanced company that is well positioned to execute its strategy for investment in renewable electricity generation and the future growth of the business.

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Highlights

Contact Energy (Contact) is a diversified and integrated energy company, focusing on the wholesale generation of electricity and the retail sale of electricity and gas, and related services. The company primarily operates in New Zealand. Contact has approximately total generation capacity of about 2,230 megawatts (MW).

Contact recorded revenues of NZD1,998 million (approximately $1,338 million) during the fiscal year ended June 2007, a decrease of 14.3% compared with 2006. The decrease was due to 42% decline in wholesale electricity prices in 2007 than in 2006.

Contact has around 27% of New Zealand's total retail electricity market share. Contact's 10 power stations provide 28% of New Zealand's total electricity generation capacity. It has about 35% of the retail gas market. The company's strength is due to its strong market position in the retail electricity and gas sectors in New Zealand.

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