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Higher power bills coming: Mercury increases prices, first-half profit falls

Mercury has warned of higher prices as it faces higher costs.

Waikato Warehouse stores make switch to solar power

The Warehouse is using a quarter of the power produced by the solar farm.

Big jump in NZ companies disclosing climate-related risks

Numbers double.

Waste-to-energy firm 'disappointed' with councils' move

The company behind the controversial waste-to-energy plant has reacted.

Smart use of power is helping ease cost of living pressures

The aim of the Healthy Homes Program is to reduce power use by 30 to 40 per cent.

Christopher Niesche: Lithium bloodbath hits billionaires

OPINION: Lithium producer Liontown's share price shows what can go wrong.

Can ‘water batteries’ solve the energy storage conundrum?

Financial Times: Plant aims to show pumping water up mountain can work in energy system.

Power grinch almost steals Christmas

A power provider has apologised for stinging a Queenstower with a shock $4000 bill.

Minister asked to step in over proposed rubbish burning plant

A waste-to-energy plant near Te Awamutu received a record number of submissions.

Gentrack back in black after surviving UK energy sector slump

Renewable energy subsidies abroad had tipped over several of software firm’s customers.

New strategy for the power generator

New strategy for the power generator Genesis Energy, has outlined a new strategy for the power generator and retailer.  Video / Michael Craig

Major coal port remains blocked by climate protesters

Several hundred protesters have blocked Newcastle Port's shipping lane.

Audrey Young on Luxon's first Cabinet - the good, the bad and the unfair

OPINION: Cabinet positions suggests National well and truly in charge.

Lodestone, Eastland, fire up solar projects

The switch has been flicked on two North Island new solar power facilities.

Watch: How Swedish firm is building an electric plane that could fly around NZ

The airport's infrastructure is being built around electrification.

US stocks and bonds jump after inflation falls

Financial Times: Rise in US consumer price index slows more than economists had forecast.

Market close: Energy stocks drag NZ shares down

A softer New Zealand sharemarket closed the week with a half per cent fall.

Infratil’s global reach in a renewable energy future

NZ is well-advised to adopt an incentive scheme to speed up alternate green power.