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.

New Zealand's relatively flat demand for electricity continues to weigh on the electricity companies.

A tree has fallen and power lines are down on Queenstown-Glenorchy Rd, leaving the road blocked in both directions.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Power has been restored to the Far North after a major outage earlier today.

Thousands of tourists arrived in the Bay of Islands this morning on the Celebrity Solstice cruise ship to be greeted by storm clouds and the power cut.

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.