Power

McLeod says power poverty is a huge issue for whānau, with one in five people struggling to pay their power bills.

A senior government minister says the government is exploring the option of intervening into the electricity market to force major energy generators to cut prices to major users.

There have been calls for compensation following the June outage which one economist predicted cost the Northland economy $60m.

“At this stage, we do not know what the cause for the tower falling was," said a Transpower spokesperson.

The region was blasted with heavy rain overnight, which caused some power outages and left parts of the region underwater.

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The Energy Hardship Panel has produced a number of recommendations as part of the government's electricity price review,