Meridian Energy Limited
Meridian Energy Limited is a New Zealand electricity company that generates power from renewable sources, including hydro, wind, and solar, and retails electricity to homes, businesses, and farms. It also operates EV charging infrastructure and offers solar buy-back plans.www.meridianenergy.co.nz
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Oct 20, 2026
John CampbellHOST
What's this all about, our business editor?
Corin DannCORRESPONDENT
Yes, Meridian Energy, they are talking, in fact, uh, two large overseas industrial power users about setting up shop in New Zealand.
Corin DannCORRESPONDENT
Now, the company, the power company, says it has a team who have been working on this for about a year to attract these, uh, companies to New Zealand with possibilities including the likes of smelters, mineral processing, green fertilizer.
Corin DannCORRESPONDENT
Chief Executive Mike Roan, uh, he says, uh, they would look to do long-term deals similar to the one Meridian has with Tiwai Point for the aluminum smelter, and that it would boost regional growth, and it's all about creating jobs.
JohnHOST
What's this all about, our business editor?
Corin DannCORRESPONDENT
Yes, Meridian Energy, they are talking, in fact.
Corin DannCORRESPONDENT
two large overseas industrial power users about setting up shop in New Zealand.
Corin DannCORRESPONDENT
Now the company, the power company, says it has a team who have been working on this for about a year to attract these companies to New Zealand with possibilities including the likes of smelters, mineral processing, green fertiliser.
Tom CockHOST
It's taking off, I guess you could say.
Don McDonaldHOST
Meridian Energy.
Don McDonaldHOST
Infr- Infratil.
Tom CockHOST
Hmm.
Claire SherwoodCORRESPONDENT
Videos have also surfaced online showing some of these thefts.
Claire SherwoodCORRESPONDENT
We've talked to Meridian Energy who said its staff are working with authorities, and it also shared many images of suspected thieves with scrap metal yards.
Andrew DickensHOST
Okay.
Claire SherwoodCORRESPONDENT
Yesterday, we had this update about the 26-year-old who's on five counts of theft.
James GerrishHOST
So James Hardy's been rated new buyer at Mellius with a $36 price target.
James GerrishHOST
Meridian Energy has been raised to overweight at Jarden Securities.
James GerrishHOST
Rio has been raised to sector perform.
James GerrishHOST
At RBC, they're talking about iron ore price risks fading.
Raylene RamsayHOST
Thefts have been reported from Oxford, Woodend, Christchurch, Lincoln, Rangiora and Amberley.
Raylene RamsayHOST
Meridian Energy says some sites are still down with almost a dozen of its stations hit.
Raylene RamsayHOST
Police are asking the public for any information.
Raylene RamsayHOST
and illicit tobacco crackdowns on the horizon, but the challenge will be turning words into action.
Mohandeep SinghGUEST
So that means that the likes of the Gene Taylors, Vector, Porta Tauranga, which have a large cornerstone shareholder, in most instances, the Crown, that doesn't count towards its weighting.
Mohandeep SinghGUEST
So even though Meridian Energy is a big company, When it gets calculated into the index, only half of it is counted because the other half of the shares are not traded.
Mohandeep SinghGUEST
So there's no point counting that as part of the index when the Crown at this stage don't intend to do anything with those shares.
Mohandeep SinghGUEST
So you do get this anomaly where some big companies like the electricity companies are not fully represented in the index because of that free float anomaly.
Ingrid HipkissHOST
Hey, Jeffrey.
Ingrid HipkissHOST
Meridian Energy, they are about to spend a lot of money on, I guess you could call them renovations.
Geoffrey HalleyCORRESPONDENT
Yes, we've seen how, uh, expensive, uh, renovations can be to our homes, et cetera, and we do like renovating an old villa.
Geoffrey HalleyCORRESPONDENT
But in the case of Meridian, it's the ninety-two-year-old Waitaki hydropower station, and it's in line for nearly half a billion dollars worth of, uh, investment to face-- uh, to give it a bit of a facelift and a refresh over the next ten years.
Oli LawGUEST
In fact, ones that I could never dream of working with at the start.
Oli LawGUEST
You know, the likes of Meridian Energy.
Oli LawGUEST
We're with Optus in Australia.
Oli LawGUEST
We've just taken on a couple of clients over here in Malaysia.
Jonathan CostelloGUEST
around the AI super cycle.
Jonathan CostelloGUEST
A good example of an opportunity within this sector of the market is Meridian Energy.
Jonathan CostelloGUEST
And Meridian is a large 100% renewable energy distributor and also generator.
Jonathan CostelloGUEST
And it's 51% government owned, as I mentioned, 100% renewable energy and is benefiting from increase in demand for electricity.
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