Taking long showers and leaving the lights on are among the big reasons flatmates argue when it comes to electricity usage, says Canstar Blue in a new survey.

An estimated two-thirds of New Zealand homes do not meet global guidelines for healthy living.

A top US Government official visiting the country has praised New Zealand as a “great model” for other countries working to boost their renewable energy generation.

A massive electrical storm has left some Mt Eden and Balmoral residents and businesses without power this afternoon.

Power companies have successfully pushed back against a move to provide people with more information about why prices go up.

Solid Energy says it is solvent, but only just, and will need a new deal from its bankers to survive.

Expect a little bit of love from your power company this year but they're not betting on it being requited.

Electricity demand is edging up but strong competition is keeping a lid on prices and could push them down this year.

The electricity sector has attracted a lot of attention in the past couple of weeks, both in the business pages and within the investment community itself.

Kiwi energy company Powershop is expanding its Australian market before targeting Europe and Asia next year.

Vector, the Auckland gas and electricity distribution monopoly, is in discussions with the Commerce Commission.

He spent 18 months without power after his electricity supplier refused to reconnect him after a storm. Now he's won an out-of-court settlement - and an apology.

Pakistan has been plunged into darkness after the breakdown of a key power transmission line in the southern part of the country.

Isis' vaunted exercise in state-building appears to be crumbling as living conditions deteriorate across the territories under its control.

The heartbroken mother of a man who died in a car crash while power lines prevented his rescue says she lies awake at night visualising his painful death.

A raft of new policies have been introduced in the wake of a fatal car crash in which a man died in front of rescuers eyes as they waited for power lines to be switched off.

Kim Campbell has organised a meeting this afternoon to discuss strategies to soften up Aucklanders for the sale of the remaining shares in lines company Vector to pay for new roads.

Mighty River Power, the first of the state-owned power companies to be partially privatised last year, will quit its geothermal investments in Chile and Germany, while sticking with its interests in....

An electrical engineer tasked with cutting power to a crash site where a man lay trapped inside his car, surrounded by power lines, did not call an operations centre for help despite being unable to find a substation for about an hour.