Contact Energy

Contact Energy Limited
Company typePublic
NZX: CEN
IndustryElectricity generation
Electricity retailing
Natural gas wholesaling
Natural gas retailing
LPG retailing
Founded1996; 28 years ago (1996)
Headquarters,
Key people
Robert McDonald, Chair
Mike Fuge, Chief Executive
RevenueIncrease NZ$2.57 billion (2021)[1]
Increase NZ$187 million (2021)[1]
Increase NZ$185 million (2021)[1]
Total assetsIncrease NZ$5.03 billion (2021)[1]
Total equityIncrease NZ$2.93 billion (2021)[1]
Number of employees
945 (June 2021)[1]
Websitewww.contact.co.nz

Contact Energy Limited is a New Zealand electricity generator, a wholesaler of natural gas, and a retailer of electricity, natural gas, broadband and LPG.

It is the second-largest electricity generator in New Zealand (after Meridian Energy), generating 23% of all electricity in 2014, and has the second-largest market share (22%) of electricity retailers (after Genesis Energy).[2] Contact owns and operates five geothermal power stations near Taupō, natural-gas turbine facilities at Hamilton and at Stratford in Taranaki, two hydroelectric dams on the Clutha River, and a diesel fuelled station near Napier.

Contact originated with the partitioning of the Electricity Corporation of New Zealand in 1996, and publicly listed in 1999.

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Annual Report 2021". Contact Energy. pp. 15, 83–84. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  2. ^ "Energy in New Zealand 2015" (PDF). Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. 2015. Archived from the original on 15 February 2016.