COMMENT: More renewables, winter energy subsidy feature in party's electricity policy.

Another major stocktake has painted a grim picture of our freshwater environment.

Further flaws were found in the Oakley Greenwood cost-benefit analysis.

The Green Party's new energy policy has been cautiously welcomed by business groups.

The Whakatane District Council has provided a full update on the area after Cyclone Cook.

Wellington Electricity has extended its unbroken run of losses under Hong Kong ownership.

A union is linking a linesman's injury to its call on Top Energy to halt its plan to lay off 17 workers.

Dutch researchers have found that electronic energy meters can be wildly inaccurate.

Gareth Morgan's The Opportunities Party would ban subsidies on fossil fuels, increase the price of carbon and overhaul energy efficiency efforts under a climate change policy launched this evening.

The Auckland Volcanic Field will "almost certainly" erupt again, and a swarm of earthquakes will be the first signal of a catastrophe, say scientists.

More than 700 Auckland residents are without power this evening due to an outage.

Some 50,000 Slingshot customers will be offered power to go along with their broadband this month as the company branches into new

Parts of the South Island have been hit by a major power cut.

Cheap oil and a wet spring kept wholesale prices low, offsetting better retail margins.

A solar powered electric vehicle charger is opened to the public in Tauranga and will provide free charging for the next year.

COMMENT: Aotearoa - the land of the long white cloud. While it's a romantic description it also aptly depicts the infrastructure challenges we face.

Businesses in a small Northland town lost tens of thousands of dollars in revenue after a power cut lasted up to 54 hours.

The battle of what's being touted as a tax on the sun is heating up as an independent appeals authority prepares to review an Electricity Authority decision.

Power has been restored to hundreds of households across Auckland after wild weather wreaked havoc at the weekend.

Vector's making progress getting power back on to the remaining Auckland homes left in the dark since the weekend's stormy weather.

Power remains out in pockets across Auckland, from Orere Point in the east to Papakura in the south, according to Vector's website.

Transport Minister Simon Bridges has bought two electric cars, and is trying to convince other National MPs to do the same.

Half of Delta's executive leadership team has jumped ship as fallout from the pole scandal continues to rock the Dunedin company.

The Commerce Commission has cut the rate of return that local electricity lines networks and national grid owner Transpower can charge in its latest decisions on monopoly network pricing.

Final repairs were made this morning to high voltage lines which were brought down when a light plane crashed, killing the two people on board.

It will be a dark and quiet night for some people in Manurewa, after a crash toppled a power pole and cut power.

Vector says the revamped grid proposals released this week change nothing of substance while introducing "huge risk" to the process.

Now that Gisborne is out of the unexpected chaos and back to the usual Christmas mayhem, locals are reflecting on how it all started. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

More than 40,000 Gisborne residents have been asked to prepare for eight hours without power again this Sunday.

Tairawhiti Police, Civil Defence and Eastland Network called a press conference today, with some good news. Made with funding from NZ On Air.