Quote Originally Posted by fish View Post
I am not sure if it is just the generators role to negotiate further with Rio.
The contentious point that I hear coming from Rio Tinto is the $64 million transmission costs they pay-which they say is many times the real cost .
I fail to understand how the loss of this revenue for transpower will not increase costs for consumers.
Not far at all as the crow flies for those power lines from Manopouri to Bluff. 113 km's from vague memory ?
$64m per annum seems grossly excessive and I think you have hit the nail on the head and consumers expecting cheaper prices are going to be very disappointed in more ways than one, they're not going to go down, more likely to go up !