Contact’s former TCC site might become home to a multibillion-dollar datacentre. (Image: NZME)Contact Energy is looking to stimulate the electricity demand needed to keep its renewable construction programme moving, with its proposed Stratford datacentre – potentially a multibillion-dollar project – a key test of the strategy. On Monday, Contact reported its net profit rose 28% to $423 million in the year to June as ebitdaf rose 31% on an underlying basis to $1,011m. The company forecast normalised ebitdaf of $1,045m for FY27 and signalled its dividend would rise to 42 cents a share.The result came as the electrici...