A Marketplace is Somewhere People Go to Buy and Sell. Once, it was a physical space. The modern marketplace doesn't have to be, yet its purpose is the same: trade. We build marketplaces where vital commodities like electricity, financial securities and gas can be bought and sold, easily. We innovate, and come up with ideas, technologies, processes, and approaches - to create marketplaces which are easy to use. We put control in the hands of the buyers, sellers and people who run the marketplace. When people have this kind of freedom, trade flourishes. Welcome to M-co New Zealand.

If you want to create an outstanding marketplace, we have the experience to help you with every single aspect. Whether that means developing a new marketplace, from scratch, and running it, or reforming and evolving your existing marketplace. You can find out more here at our website, or by getting in touch with us.

M-co powered sites

Regi will facilitate the first auction of Carbon Emission Units on a grey market in New Zealand. >>

Energy Hedge M-co's trading system is enabling New Zealand's five largest generators to trade electricity hedge contracts online for the first time >>

Unlisted The Internet-based trading facility that enables small to medium sized companies to trade their shares and keep their shareholders informed. >>

COMIT Free to Air Provides electricity prices, demand and hydrology information. >>

News

False Prophets of Market Power

The recent spate of high electricity prices led energy consultant Bryan Leyland to claim in this newspaper last Sunday that generators are exercising market power, and to call for some kind of central authority to make decisions about generation investment. >>

Let There Be Light, and Market

The market approach to electricity is coming under scrutiny by consumers and media commentators in the wake of severe hydro shortages and high spot prices for electricity. This follows similar events in 2001, 2003 and 2006 when rainfall during summer and autumn were substantially below average before winter. >>

M-co delivers reconciliation system for New Zealand's electricity market

Marketplace specialist M-co today announced the delivery of a new reconciliation IT system on time and on budget to the Electricity Commission. M-co has also begun the Reconciliation Manager service provider role to the NZ electricity market in a total deal worth up to $14.5m for up to 11 years of service. >>

M-co creates 'Regi' for first carbon trade with Trade Me and Meridian >>

Understanding Electricity Markets - the fundamentals

Find out about our popular, intensive two-day training course >>