Quote Originally Posted by Jantar View Post
What the smelter are asking for isn't discount, but merely a fair transmission cost. Tiwai pay much more than any other user in NZ on a MW per km basis, a total of 7% of the entire county's transmission costs, yet they are only 640 km (4 circuits, each 160 km) in length compared to the more than 12,000 km of Transpower's transmission lines in NZ .

In fact a complete new set of transmission lines from Manapouri to Tiwai could be built for what Tiwai pays in just over 5 years transmission costs.

Transpower and the EA are looking at a new TPM (Transmission Pricing Methodology) that would reduce the cost to Tiwai to bring them into line with what the rest of the country pays.
But but but was it $0.05 /kw?
Surely they can find some other industry to pay more than this?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/119...ranspower-bill