The Tiwai Pt power price stoush will probably have a small negative effect on the price of Mighty River - but it's not a showstopper say sharemarket analysts.

The Government has opened discussions with Tiwai Point aluminium smelter's ultimate owners Rio Tinto in a bid to broker a deal after talks between the smelter and Meridian Energy reportedly broke down.

Tiwai Pt aluminium smelter's owners have contradicted a report from Meridian, saying they think a power deal can be agreed on.

Potential investors in Mighty River Power, Genesis Energy and Meridian will be exposed to the financial impacts caused by any new charges linked to water or geothermal use and land resumption.

Editorial: If anything useful has been learned from the Labour Party's pursuit of Solid Energy, it is that there are severe limits to the present Government's asset sales.

More than 350 young people have signed on as building apprentices since a $2000 bonus became available last Wednesday for the first 10,000 apprentices who sign up.

The 68 boxes carried onto Parliament's forecourt this afternoon contained 393,000 signatures. It is thought to be the biggest ever petition in support of a citizen's initiated referendum.

The Government will push ahead with asset sales regardless of a referendum on the issue, Finance Minister Bill English says.

The carbon fibre Solar Impulse plane has the wingspan of a 747 but only weighs as much a Honda Prius.

Geothermal is the ultimate renewable energy source - and one reason why Mighty River Power is kicking off the government's asset sales. Energy reporter Grant Bradley visits the company's brand-new plant

Maybe you've done a backflip or two in your time, but were you ever driving a Mini Cooper at the time?

Christchurch power company Orion has asked the Commerce Commission for permission to hike prices to recover earthquake rebuild costs.

Contact Energy - New Zealand's biggest listed electricity company - plans to cut more than 100 jobs as part of a $40 million cost saving drive.

New Zealanders should band together to demand the cheaper power prices offered to big industrial consumers, an industry expert says.

It's the great Kiwi power rort. A university researcher has found that New Zealand power prices have surged at twice the rate of nearly every other developed country over the past 30 years.

Kiwi power prices have increased at twice the rate of most other countries over the past three decades.