Contact Energy Limited is a New Zealand electricity generator, a wholesaler of natural gas, and a retailer of electricity, natural gas, broadband and LPG. It is the second-largest electricity generator in New Zealand, generating 23% of all electricity in 2014, and has the second-largest market share of electricity retailers. Contact owns and operates five geothermal power stations near Taupō, natural-gas turbine facilities at Hamilton and at Stratford in Taranaki, two hydroelectric dams on the Clutha River, and a diesel fuelled station near Napier. Contact originated with the partitioning of the Electricity Corporation of New Zealand in 1996, and publicly listed in 1999. Wikipedia