Calls for power companies to offer discounts to low income families

Checkpoint - A podcast by RNZ - Mondays

There are calls for power companies to offer wide spread discounts for low income families, it comes on the back of several big businesses warning rising energy bills could force them shut down for good - with one saying its power bill has gone up 600%. Meanwhile, Associate Energy Minister Shane Jones has accused the big energy generators of profiteer and revealed the governments investigating ways to force them to cut prices, Professor Jodi Gardner speaks to Lisa Owen.

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