Energy Direct

{{Short description|Former New Zealand electricity and gas retailer}}

{{Use New Zealand English|date=November 2024}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}

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| dissolved = 2016

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| successor = Trustpower

| foundation = 2001

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| area_served = North Island, New Zealand

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| industry = Electricity and gas retailing

| products = Electricity, gas

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| parent = Trustpower

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| url = {{URL|http://www.energydirectnz.co.nz}}

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Energy Direct NZ Ltd was an electricity and gas retailer in New Zealand. It was acquired by Trustpower in mid-2013.{{cite web |url= https://www.nzx.com/companies/TPW/announcements/237436 |title=Contract to purchase Energy Direct NZ now unconditional |date=14 June 2013 |publisher=NZX |accessdate=15 March 2014}} Previously, it was a trading division of the Wanganui Gas Company Limited, which the Whanganui District Council wholly owns.{{cite web |url=http://www.switchme.co.nz/retailer-profile-Energy-Direct |title=retailer profile: Energy Direct |publisher=switchme |accessdate=16 August 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111003065752/http://www.switchme.co.nz/retailer-profile-Energy-Direct |archivedate=3 October 2011 }}

In 2011, Consumer NZ rated Energy Direct as one of the top power companies in New Zealand in its annual survey.{{cite news|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10742522| title=Smaller power companies show up larger competitors| publisher=The New Zealand Herald | date=2 August 2011| accessdate=16 August 2011}}

The name Energy Direct was also used by the Hutt Valley Electric Power Board (HVEPB) in the early 1990s.[https://www.welectricity.co.nz/about-us/history-and-ownership/]

Energy Direct closed in 2016, and its customers were transferred to Trustpower.{{cite web |title=Energy Direct NZ to close this year |url=https://www.consumer.org.nz/articles/news-energy-direct-nz-to-close-this-year |website=Consumer NZ |access-date=6 February 2023 |date=25 July 2016}}