Power has been fully restored to more than 20,000 homes and businesses in Gisborne tonight, after a 33-hour outage.

As the bulk of the Gisborne district remains without power after plane crashed into high voltage lines, the residents of the region are mucking in.

The Electricity Authority is softening its proposed reforms for national grid payments, but power prices would still rise for some regions.

Investigators will begin combing through the wreckage of a plane crash that killed two people and cut power to 20,000 homes in the Gisborne region.

Billing disputes are the main issue for utility customers but the number of those complaining about disconnections is growing.

A car has hit a power pole and broken it in two in South Auckland this morning.

There are calls to make the Far North self-sufficient for power, after the whole region blacked out for 12 hours yesterday.

A decision on whether the Department of Conservation will allow the Waitaha River power scheme will be made by mid-2017.

Over 32,000 Far North homes and businesses were without power for most of yesterday, and police are investigating whether the outage was sabotage.

A major power cut that has closed schools and business across the Far North may be sabotage.

More than 1000 households in West Auckland were without power this morning.

The Electricity Authority says consumers will save around $300 million a year following its decision to end power station subsidies.

The head of Genesis Energy wants to move his company to being an integrated energy management business but says this could expose it to overseas competition.

Submissions from all over New Zealand have poured in opposing Westpower's Waitaha River power scheme, forcing a four-day hearing in Hokitika next week.

First NZ Capital has raised its target price for Genesis Energy to $1.97 from $1.85, but has retained its neutral rating on the stock.

The revitalised board of struggling electricity producer New Zealand Windfarms is exploring ways to pay a maiden interim dividend.

Elon Musk, the man behind Tesla and SpaceX, has made a lot of enemies during his time in business.

A small island in American Samoa is making the switch from diesel generators to 100 per cent renewable energy.

The arrival of electric vehicle company Tesla in New Zealand is expected to see the number of electric cars being sold here leap.

An accident along Whanganui's Mosston Rd which knocked out power to nearly 200 homes has prompted calls for a speed camera in the

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Over eighty properties are without power after a contractor struck a cable in central Auckland.

Services slowly return to normal across Marlborough but many still advised to boil water.

Te Aroha Museum is celebrating 110 years of electricity in the region with an exhibition that will trigger powerful memories for older people. Among the items on display, vintage vacuum cleaners and heaters. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Te Aroha Museum is celebrating 110 years of electricity in the region with an exhibition that will trigger powerful memories for older people. Among the items on display, vintage vacuum cleaners and heaters. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

More than 156 homes are without power in Auckland after two faults affected about 2000 households overnight.

Trustpower spun out its Australian windfarms into a separately listed company, Tilt Renewables, on October 31.

A fault that has cut power to more than 1600 properties in Lyttelton might not be fixed until tonight.

Meridian chief executive Mark Binns says he wants to see the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter stay, "but not at any cost".

A detailed map showing the location of every dangerously compromised power pole in Dunedin shows just how worried residents should be about the risk of death or injury.