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Queenstown Lakes residents have slammed Aurora Energy plan's to hike power prices, calling the power company untrustworthy, unreliable and even incompetent.
The company has applied to the Commerce Commission to increase prices to address historic under-investment.
Today the Commission held an online consultation for residents to have their say on the plan, before the district council voted on their own submission in an extraordinary meeting.
RNZ reporter Tess Brunton has more.