Genesis Energy has negotiated a high price from other generators who want to keep them as back-up.

Air New Zealand is buying electric vehicles for its ground fleet in a move that will boost the EV sector in this country.

Julian Kardos, managing director of Electric Kiwi, talks five things every Kiwi should know about electricity.

Emergency services have contacted Vector to advise them of the issue which happened at around 7:30pm.

Contact's selling its Auckland power station to a property developer.

Aucklanders are cranking up the air con to cope with the rising heat and humidity this week, causing a spike in electricity usage, Transpower says.

An electricity data set shows all the recorded times animals have cut part of power grids around the world.

Former Contact Energy director Phil Pryke is an Australian prawn fisherman-turned-hippie, who washed up here in the mid-1970. Pattrick Smellie writes that he has never been far from controversy since.

Executive Mark Binns says a new wind farm is one of the options on the table if Meridian can't convince Genesis to keep open two electricity plants.

Vector has sold its New Zealand gas business to global utilities investment fund First State.

The way electricity lines companies charge for their services is all wrong and needs to change if we are to take advantage of emerging technologies, the Electricity Authority says.

People rushed to call friends, send texts, share moments on social media during and after the Rugby World Cup final yesterday morning.

Gusts up to 170km/h in the South Island, leave emergency services inundated with calls.

A startling slump in the price of aluminium on global markets is more than offsetting a 20 per cent fall in the New Zealand dollar against the greenback.

A man who was trapped in his crashed car beneath live wires for almost two hours probably would have died even if there wasn't a delay in treating him, a coroner has found.

This week, Small Business editor Caitlyn Sykes talks to business owners about their firms' governance structures.

Contact Energy is facing growing pressure from institutional investors over its governance structure.

Mighty River will spring another 2.5 cents per share special dividend for shareholders, having already given 5c in December.

Like the mass extinction of screws on the back of your phone, the death of cables is coming and one New Zealand company is leading the charge.

Profits and earning are up at Meridian Energy. And shareholders are in line for a special dividend.

It's been a tough year for Contact Energy, with profits falling 43 per cent. But CEO Dennis Barnes says improvements are expected across all parts of the business next year.

Of the 33 employees based at the site, 26 roles will be disestablished and seven employees will moved within the company.

Contact Energy's decision to close its Otahuhu power station is the latest in an industry-wide move away from gas.

It is not only Southlanders who can breathe a sigh of relief that the Tiwai Pt smelter received a stay of execution this week, writes Brian Fallow.

Genesis Energy announced its last two coal-burning electricity generators at Huntly Power Station will be shut down.

One in five Auckland households switched power companies last year, helping them save an average of $136 in the process.

Most consumers are happy with their power companies, says a Consumer magazine survey , but the bigger the company the less likely they are to be satisfied.

The price of power is helping drive down customer satisfaction with electricity retailers, according to Consumer New Zealand's latest annual survey.