The Government plans to strengthen the Electricity Authority, increasing penalties and enforcement powers in a bid to ease pressure on household power bills and improve competition in the electricity market.
Energy Minister Simon Watts said legislation would be amended to give the regulator greater authority to act against rule-breaking power companies, arguing the current system does not go far enough to protect consumers.
“Kiwis are feeling the pressure of high power bills,” Watts said, adding that the Government is moving quickly to ensure electricity companies “play by the rules”.
Under the proposed changes to the Electricity Industry Act, maximum penalties for serious breaches would rise from $2 million to as much as $10 million, or three times the commercial gain, or up to 10% of a company’s turnover. The Electricity Authority would also gain the power to issue instant infringement fines of up to $2,000 for minor but repeated breaches.
The reforms would also improve the Authority’s ability to update market rules and monitor behaviour across the sector, with the Government saying this will strengthen competition and better protect consumers.
Higher penalties, however, are not expected to take effect until 2027, while the new infringement system would begin in 2026. The enforcement tools would align the Authority more closely with those already available to the Commerce Commission.
Watts said the changes would ensure “real consequences” for companies that attempt to distort the market or take advantage of customers, and would help restore confidence that households and businesses are not being overcharged.
The reforms come as the Government continues broader work to address high electricity prices, manage dry-year risks, and ensure long-term energy security. Since announcing its Energy Package in October, the Government has begun the first stage of procuring an LNG facility to improve security of supply, assessed new generation projects through the Fast Track Approvals process, and started developing a new regulatory framework aimed at preventing dry-year shortages that can drive up prices.
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Joke move from inept Govt. Will change nothing while Watts and Luxflake keep pushing climate alarmism.
Look at MSM
There’s always a storm coming
That sometimes may or may not arrive
But these are the same people who sold Us covid
Who without such would not have been possible
Government funded the shadow of the beast
And Christchurch
High Popalorum and Low Popahirum
Skinning you from different directions
Lies distortion and spin
Who have blood on their hands
Least We forget at Our peril
This is just nonsense. Re-nationalise the industry. Re-nationalise all essential infrastructure. None of it should be in the hands of shareholders.
Prior to Roger Douglas electricity bills arrived every two months and were so low they were not a burden on the citizens of New Zealand. We had first class roads and cheap rail travel to everywhere. Water, which we have in abundance, was free.
Shareholder greed will eventually strangle every home and business in the country.
Also, can someone tell me why, when this country was taken from bush and scrub to first world status in less than one hundred years by fewer than two million settlers, we now cannot do anything unless we bring in infinity third world people to ‘help’ us?
All part of the planned destruction of the White race
What was covid?
An attack on the White race by the serpent seed of Genesis 3:15 masquerading as Israel
Vaxx Daddy
You will Own nothing and be happy – sound familiar?
Agenda 2030 – New World Order conspiracy theory or fact?
This is no catch phrase and is an intended consequence of their actions
Judaism is communism
The acquisition takeover and control of all money power resources and wealth
No private Ownership
That is their religion to take everything You Own
We are just cash cows here to be milked from the cradle to the grave
Judaism the tune Our politicians faithfully adhere to and tag along to the tune of
In just following orders
Political Economic Religious
Who will sell You out in the blink of an eye
Who only think in three year cycles
Follow the money
Quite simple really
At one point NZ was wealthier than all of Europe, the U.K. and led the world with the highest standard of living.
Enter ‘Globalism’-under Zionist control where NZ is now a crippled society, both financially, mentally, physically & healthwise.
https://nzloyal.com/when-the-system-grinds-you-to-dust/
Now, compare the above to the below, and see that it’s a ‘Globalist Ops’..
https://www.youtube.com/@PeterSchiffChannel/videos
Aussie Ricardo Bosi called these people out in Oz, “Remember who they are, and what they have done!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL7HBIGhKDQ
https://nzloyal.com/new-zealands-forgotten-betrayals-a-call-to-remember-and-resist/
https://nzloyal.com/wake-up-new-zealand-the-tinderbox-is-lit-and-your-apathy-fuels-the-fire/
That apathy encompasses the usual mindset to vote for the Uni-Party, hoping thing will change; THEY WILL NOT CHANGE!
https://nzloyal.com/nz-loyal-de-banked/
https://nzloyal.com/kiwibank-asb-and-nbs-referred-to-ombudsman/
https://nzloyal.com/the-banking-cartel-exposing-the-hypocrisy-and-predatory-nature-of-new-zealands-financial-institutions/
https://nzloyal.com/the-coming-economic-collapse-the-banking-cabals-stranglehold-on-humanity/
Wait until Digital ID and CBDC identify you as a supporter of a minor political party that challenges the Status-Quo-then you too will be ‘de-banked’..!
https://nzloyal.com/only-when-you-realize/
https://nzloyal.com/new-zealands-grim-awakening-a-nation-betrayed-bleeding-and-on-the-brink/
https://nzloyal.com/had-enough-the-merciless-truth-new-zealand-cant-ignore/
https://nzloyal.com/exposing-the-truth-new-zealand-medical-council-pharmaceutical-industry-and-government-complicity-in-the-covid-19-narrative/
As noted here, and this was sent to Parliament…!
https://www.globalresearch.ca/new-zealand-modern-day-dystopia-firearms-banned-new-dawn-magazine-censored-new-prime-minister-once-suggested-hunting-down-unvaccinated-so-what-could-go-possibly-wrong/5806511
https://nzloyal.com/new-zealand-loyal-party-government-statement-justice-for-the-covid-19-jab-rollout/
https://nzloyal.com/submission-on-the-gene-technology-bill/
https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-09-02-former-pfizer-vp-warns-booster-shot-extermination-weapon.html#
https://www.globalresearch.ca/video-archbishop-carlo-vigano-statement-meeting-medical-doctors-covid-ethics-international-world/5845737
https://banned.video/watch?id=6210d0981d2f041263837214
“Kiwis are feeling the pressure of high power bills”
Another good example of where governments lead You in trying to pin the tail on the donkey
In the dark
Screw it up at every opportunity never left to waste
Crisis actors who create crises then act out real life parts in the crises they have created
Perennial revolving doors damage control
The blind leading the blind
I was talking to one guy and said talking about the scandalous price of power “imagine having four daughters?”
He said “I have”
Anyone who has had a daughter knows what you’re up against – but four?
And are ordinary car owners being rail roaded and hood winked into subsidizing the electricity prices pertaining to the EV transition fairy tale bedside story in providing a crutch for this ailing cripple at their expense?
EV’s can and do void your Homeowners Insurance Policy due to the fire risk.
It takes 6,000 Gallons of water to extinguish an EV fire on the average.
(Note- NEVER park next to an EV, lest it catch fire and burn your cehicle as well…)
And what happens when an EMP which occurs via sunspot solar storms or a nuclear device being exploded in the stratosphere fries the circuits to everything reliant on electricity?
Everything stops!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEdx3d4urIo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toHiZ0FOol8
Here’s a method of protection…but most electricians and car mechanics do not know how to install these;
https://www.empshield.com/3-phase/
If you have a metal / iron roof, make sure that it’s on a separate grounding rod and wire into the earth
How does Watts reconcile….
“help restore confidence that households and businesses are not being overcharged”
with
“Damp squib energy reforms reject 8 of 10 recommendations
The Government’s limited energy package doubles down on fossil fuels after a major market review recommends privatising the gentailers”
Why are Luxon, Peters, and Seymour standing idly by whilst the dishonest Watts and Willis protect the predominantly Australian: energy, grocery, insurance, and banking cartels?
Luxon promised us he would police the cartels.
Right about the time he promised to f#%k sorry fix the joint.
So i assume these higher penalties will eventually be passed on to the consumer? Nationalise these stretegic assets like electricity now
Kinda like paying short-notice electricity rate increases within a week of a vaccinated individual lacking cognitive critical thinking via ‘Covid Brain Fog’ who went ahead and removed the bolts that held a transmission high-tension electrical tower in place, and then causing the tower to topple, cutting off power to thousands up north, and taking 2 weeks to restore the same at the customer’s expense.
And when you ask where underground electrical lines, fiber cables. water, sewer and gas lines are located, NO COUNCIL WILL GIVE YOU THE ANSWER BECAUSE THEY DO NOT KNOW THEMSELVES what is contained in their jurisdictions!
Instead, you get referred to an international globalist-styled company called ‘Before-U-Dig’ where one has to sign-up for an account, with the info shared to third parties, and has T&C’s you must comply with.
Then, you MAY be charged money for that information / chart / map, and they can even send out a person at your expense to ‘watch over’ where you might dig, charging a fee per hour, of course. They are not up-front on what they will charge!!!
Every home, business owner, and every property developer should be able to access this info from their local City & Regional Councils, but it’s not available.
How can a Council provide infrastructure advice and improvements when it doesn’t even know where these underground utilities are?
BUT- YOU WILL BE CHARGED FOR ONGOING DAMAGE FROM DIGGING AND HITTING THESE UNDERGROUND ‘ASSETS’ despite calling for help pre-digging / drilling from ther Councils and their ‘Duty Builders’ who are ignorant of these ramifications for the homeowner, business owner, or rural projects.
And you can bet that the Ratepayers and Power Company Customers will be charged for these FUBARS…!
If we triple taxes and invest trillions of dollars of taxpayers money
into windmills, remove and ban all internal-combustion engines, destroy all evil
methane-belching cows and ban farming, force compulsary 15-minute city living
on 95% of the population, enforce digital implants, big-pharma injection programs and insect diets,
and criminalize all outdoor travel except for the corporate rulers – Then we can all be happy and safe….
The transition to Wind power is a failure as such
It has its place
But not complete self sufficiency as a bridge to off ramp fossil fuels and hydro power generation
Too much ill conceived too soon
But the shysters – the smart money
Are long gone
BAWHAWHAWHAWHAWHAW…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrwRF0Nudl4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubdMNNbnivA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsswrLKlinU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNEMAklFF0I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LklUVkMPl8g
But, I digress about the future of…’wind power’…minus the flatus of carbon cows…!
Undersea power generation = fisheries collapse???
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ_g3yNMy_g
BEWARE. Quiet Surveillance Law Push Threatens Free Speech and Privacy (This from the New Conservatives and the Free Speech Union). I’ve included a link at the bottom so you can make a submission objecting if you wish to.Its a simple process and I’ve already voiced my objection.
As we all switched off over the holidays, the Government was pushing through legislation that would dramatically expand surveillance powers. We only just saw this tonight, thanks to the Free Speech Union, so the information comes from them. Head over to the Parliament website to make your submission. Unbelievably, we have until midnight 14 January – yes, tomorrow!! Telecommunications and Other Matters Amendment Bill Submission – New Zealand Parliament
This proposal is not just about enforcement or security. It strikes directly at two basic rights protected under the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act (NZBORA):
– the right to freedom of expression, and
– the right to be free from unreasonable search and surveillance.
Under the proposed changes, the Government would gain sweeping new powers to:
– Expand surveillance over overseas online platforms
– Create an administrative “kill switch” to shut down digital services
– Force changes that weaken encryption
– Bypass court oversight if enforcement is considered “impractical”
These powers threaten free speech at its core.
https://www3.parliament.nz/en/ECommitteeSubmission/54SCEDSI_SCF_2A142C71-BABB-45EB-38EB-08DE1017E271/CreateSubmission
Submission submitted, & thanks for the heads-up!
This is happening simultaneously in many countries…in prep for Digital ID, CBDC, Global Zionist dictatorships and World War Three.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DMJcVucdPU
https://targetedjustice.com/
In order to stop this, vote for the NZ Loyal Party in 2026!!!
This isn’t regulation its a basic policing action, that is to say, a JOKE. Proper regulation would see prices capped in some instances, for example poor and elderly, or pegged to inflation, inflationary pressures taken into consideration when pricing and a proper regulatory watchdog set up to oversee prices management and increases/decreases.
Unfortunately NZ has heard this many times before. Nothing will change.
mustave worked out a secret deal around the most obvious extortion