Trustpower has blamed former energy minister Max Bradford's electricity industry reforms for delays to information technology projects in the sector, saying complexities introduced into the electricity market in 1999 had come home to roost.
The contract for Contact Energy’s major SAP project may be up for grabs again.
Contact Energy is installing smart meters in Christchurch.
Three years ago, Contact Energy moved its storage requirements from IBM to EMC, because the latter was offering a potentially better internet protocol storage solution. “Today, we believe we can do most of what we need on IP,” says Harry Page, the company’s enterprise architect.