Quote Originally Posted by horus1 View Post
Believe me Tiwai use transmission assets at Dunedin, North Makerawa , and lines from Twizel to Invercargill at least. The story they are putting out is false . They deliver no benefit to NZ and should have been gone years ago. The price they get energy for is cost and they cannot exist on Manapouri generation alone.
Tiwai uses about 13% of our national generation 24/7, 365 days a year, EVENLY. Peak to trough ratio 1 to 1. How on earth are we going to turn that into domestic consumption that sucks most of it between 5Pm-8Pm each day, peak to trough ratio something like 1 to 6 ? We need big steady users like Tiwai or we will pay dearly for the transmission.