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The lines company says it is working to minimise the impact of power cuts.
Supplier switching at four-year low as power prices stay up
About 30,340 customers changed supplier last month, 13 per cent less than a year earlier.
Editorial: The climate must change
Clearly some people are having trouble understanding this: Climate change is real.
'Green' hydrogen: Could it save Taranaki's energy industry?
Taranaki's future as an energy powerhouse could be in "green" hydrogen, PM announces.
Super Fund lobbied to sell its $550m worth of oil and gas shares
The Sovereign wealth fund has shares in almost130 oil and gas companies around the world.
Pike River: Miners ready to recover mates
In just a few weeks, experts will chip off the concrete seal to the mine's entrance.
Petrol prices rise 8 cents in February
Kiwis have recently had to fork out a bit extra to fill up.
Hydrogen not the answer to energy saving in NZ
COMMENT: Best to battle climate change with tools that will make a genuine difference.
New ideas for electricity price reform cheered - so far
Latest electricity reform ideas take some digesting, but mostly welcomed by sector.
Meridian posts record first-half earnings
The energy company will also be lifting its dividend.
Contact Energy posts $276m profit on back of asset sales
Contact sold assets to simplify its business.
Mercury's $75m plan to squeeze more juice from Karapiro
The company will spend close to half a billion dollars on its Waikato power stations
Hydrogen 'unlikely to be economic for industrial heat'
Hydrogen unlikely to be a cost-competitive option for heavy industry to reduce emissions.
Wild weather cuts power, whips up lake waves
Kaikōura and coastal Marlborough are now bearing the brunt of the wild weather.
Govt pumps another $11M into low-emissions transport projects
This will help to introduce another 31 low-emissions vehicles.
Govt and businesses to spend $11m on green transport projects
The Government is spending $4.3 million and businesses will stump up $7.3 million
Pump and go: Z Energy rolls out automated fuel payment
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Pāpāmoa pipeline purchase: First Gas faces prosecution
Commerce Commission has begun proceedings in the High Court.
The disaster that awaits unless we act
Housing, agriculture, tourism - dire predictions if climate allowed to continue warming.
Outrage over government spying on protest groups
Activist groups are outraged the government used private investigators to spy on them
Power company boss lifts lid on industry 'dirty secrets'
Neal Barclay says the industry needs to be called out on unfair penalty schemes
Thompson & Clark asked to 'monitor' Ngāti Ruanui
Ngāti Ruanui seeks more information about "spying" and may make an official complaint
Private equity strikes again with $270m Mercury metering deal
Private equity has struck again with a $270m deal to buy Mercury's metering business.
Guessing game: Kiwis rank 2nd in 10-question global quiz
We overestimate immigration and underestimate global warming.
Viewpoint NZ: Q&A with Santa and the Bay Sausage Rollers
Video news from around the regions. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Ten ComCom complaints about solar power company
Solar panels in hot demand. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Kiwi virtual power plant will be world's largest
Virtual power plant will be the world's largest, solar business leader says.
Fuel-price probe: ComCom faces 'considerable pressure'
The Commence Minister said the market regulator is "no stranger to pressure"
Fonterra is beginning to turn its back on coal
Fonterra is looking to reduce its gas emissions and have an impact on climate change.
Neil Holdom: Gas can give us emissions-free power
COMMENT: Taranaki is being offered a scheme to use gas for emissions-free power.