In news that is sure to warm the cockles of most CHB households, electricity account holders are set to receive a near $1000 "winter bonus" this week.
The Central Hawke's Bay Consumers' Power Trust has announced that every electricity account holder connected to the Centralines network at May 31, will receive a $905 tax-paid dividend payment in the mail.
Trust chairman Alistair Setter confirmed the nearly $1000 payment would be in addition to the annual discount received by Centralines customers, which was due later in the year.
Cheques would be mailed out this week, he said.
Setter said this would be the first dividend distribution in a number of years, and had been made possible by Centralines' excellent financial results and network performance and solid performance over recent years.
He said the trust's board had challenged the company to "go out and grow" and Centralines had "delivered".