{"id":573312,"date":"2026-08-19T02:16:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T02:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/573312\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T02:16:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T02:16:16","slug":"dividend-for-hawkes-bay-power-trust-consumers-will-be-275-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/573312\/","title":{"rendered":"Dividend for Hawke\u2019s Bay Power trust consumers will be $275 this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">Trustees welcomed the $18.3 million dividend paid to HBPCT by Unison, which was confirmed at the trust\u2019s public annual meeting on July 30.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">Trust chair Kirsten Westwood said: \u201cAfter reviewing the trust\u2019s financial position, we are pleased to increase the dividend from $270 last year to $275 this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe recognise that many households are facing cost-of-living pressures, and we hope this payment provides meaningful support to families across Hawke\u2019s Bay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThis is a tangible return from local ownership of Unison, ensuring that the benefits of the region\u2019s electricity network are shared directly with consumers.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">The dividend brings the total direct financial benefit returned to consumers since 1999 to more than $303 million. <\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">A public vote is taken every five years to determine the future of the trust, and was last held in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trustees welcomed the $18.3 million dividend paid to HBPCT by Unison, which was confirmed at the trust\u2019s public&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[227969,4765,1561,5195,11581,23852,36354,2082,5194,1976,42,5345,3607,3805,43,10112,1961,40,38,41,39,9438,63373,1533,379],"class_list":["post-573312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-227969","tag-annual","tag-bay","tag-be","tag-connected","tag-consumers","tag-dividend","tag-for","tag-hastings","tag-hawkes","tag-headlines","tag-increase","tag-napier","tag-network","tag-news","tag-power","tag-this","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-trust","tag-unison","tag-will","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}