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.

King Country residents are debating the future of the local power trust - which currently pumps more than $1 million a year back into the community Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Large electricity users with national operations are losing patience with local electricity line network owners' slow progress towards having common terms and conditions.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.