Consumers who have signed contracts with an electricity retailer will pay the price set out in their contract.

The Board licenses all electricity retailers who sell electricity to residential and small commercial consumers.

Bullfrog pioneered the concept of an annual audit for green electricity retailers when it launched in 2005.

Approximately 80-90% of the island's gas is used by industrial customers, with small amounts provided to Synergy, the state's largest electricity retailer.

On the buying side, utilities, big industrial users and a new group of electricity retailers will compete for supplies.

Low-cost system for customer switching established allowing every consumer to choose their electricity retailer.

Of the electricity retailers, Genesis Energy has the largest market share.

He was a member of Shortland County Council (the local electricity retailer) from 1958 to 1968.

Some electricity retailers are offering feed in tariff rates above the minimum stipulated by government.

For now, consumers have been tentative, with few of the 4.7 million eligible households switching to the new electricity retailers entering the market.