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Region to export power despite new energy users
Southland is set to be an exporter of electricity despite two planned data centres, a renewed 20-year power deal to keep the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter open and a proposed hydrogen production facility all set to gobble up power in the South. Datagrid, …