2026 Energy Awards winners
Contact Energy was the big winner at the Energy Excellence Awards, taking four of the 10 categories.
The gentailer - which last week...
AWARDS FINALIST: Contact Energy – The Flex Factor: Glenbrook Ohurua Battery 1
Contact Energy's first grid-scale battery began trading on 1 April, less than two years after construction started in July 2024.
The first...
AWARDS FINALIST: Alliance Group and Active Refrigeration – Alliance high temperature heat pump projects
Alliance Group and Active Refrigeration have installed more than 11 megawatts of high-temperature heat pump capacity across three meat processing...
AWARDS FINALIST: Woolworths New Zealand – Chitranjan (Chintu) Rathod - Energy Operations and Innovation Manager
Woolworths New Zealand energy operations and innovation manager Chitranjan Rathod has delivered the supermarket chain's Energy Management Centre...
AWARDS FINALIST: Contact Energy – The Good Initiative
Contact Energy helped more than 20,000 New Zealanders within seven months of launching its Good Initiative to support communities facing financial...
AWARDS FINALIST: Channel Infrastructure NZ – Accelerated diesel storage for New Zealand
Channel Infrastructure responded to the global fuel crisis by rapidly recommissioning two tanks at Marsden Point to increase New Zealand's diesel...
AWARDS FINALIST: Westpower | ElectroNet Group – Simon Harvey – General Manager
ElectroNet general manager Simon Harvey has overseen remarkable growth since taking charge of the contracting business in 2020, with the Westpower...
AWARDS FINALIST: Fonterra Co-operative – Project Kowhai – Small footprint with a big impact
Fonterra achieved coal-free manufacturing in the North Island through Project Kowhai, which installed resistive element boilers at its Waitoa...
AWARDS FINALIST: Contact Energy and Syos Aerospace – Underwater Robotic Coating Measurement and Inspection System
Syos Aerospace and Contact Energy have delivered a world-first underwater robotic inspection system that is changing how hydroelectric penstocks...