Mercury Energy is the retail operating division of Mighty River Power, a New Zealand state-owned enterprise. It retails electricity and gas to customers, primarily in the North Island of New Zealand. Mercury has a 19% share of the New Zealand retail electricity market.
The current Mercury Energy took over the trading name and retail electricity business from an earlier company of that name; the electricity lines (networks) business is now known as Vector. The earlier company known as Mercury Energy was the electricity supplier in the 1998 Auckland power crisis.
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