Mercury Energy’s hydro power generation has been boosted by a wet half-year

They called it an “atmospheric  river”, the weather bombardment which hit  NZ’s northern region at the weekend. It exacted a  terrible toll on  metropolitan  Auckland and the rest of the region.

Few living there may have noted a statement from electricity generator Mercury Energy labelled “WET, WET, WET!” This was to emphasise the impact of  what the company said had  been “the wettest first half-year ever”. Mercury operates the chain of hydro-electricity stations on the Waikato river.

More prosaically, the company said  hydro generation  in the second quarter  of this financial year was 38% higher than in the corresponding quarter in the previous year.