Iran will raise its oil exports by 500,000 barrels a day within a week after the removal of international sanctions.

Wind and solar power appear set for a record-breaking year in 2016 as a clean-energy construction boom gains momentum.

Fraser Whineray talks big opportunities to tackle climate change with renewable electricity.

Oil is headed for its biggest two-year loss on record as an expansion in U.S. crude stockpiles exacerbated a global glut.

For an industry that already was pushing its cost-cutting efforts to the limits, the new declines are a devastating blow.

It is still common practice in many households to wash the dishes by hand to get all the grimy food off of them, but here's why you shouldn't.

The price of petrol is falling, aided and abetted by a regional price war, but has it declined far enough, given the slump in oil prices?

Wall Street moved lower with the price of oil amid concern about the global glut at a time of weakening worldwide economic growth.

The Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal by New Zealand Carbon Farming against a decision in favour of Mighty River Power over a $34.7 million liability.

Mike Bennetts has driven Z Energy since its inception and this year has been a particularly strong one for shareholders.

Contact Energy's stock price slumped as the power firm failed to meet market forecasts amid tough competition and higher than expected costs related to bad debt and the separation from Origin Energy.

For Berliner Anke Seemann, Germany's energy transformation is the chance to exercise her green conscience.

A cartoon circulating on Twitter carries a warning for the oil industry.

Homeowners who suffered up to three days without power during a huge blackout will get just $50 each.

The world is running out of storage facilities supplies of oil and may soon exhaust tanker space, raising the chances of a plunge in crude prices.

One of the architects of the world's biggest sovereign wealth fund says pension plans face increasingly complex decisions over responsible investment, particularly in energy.

An employee who took customer details to start a competing gas supply business has been ordered to pay millions in damages.

Vector has launched the first rapid electric vehicle chargers in downtown Auckland.

A mission to Ceres, a dwarf planet 257 million miles from the Sun and the size of Texas, may cost about $27 billion.

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.

Tauranga-based Trustpower will pay $5 a share in cash in a full takeover offer for King Country Energy, provided it gets at least 70.2 percent of the company.

Two years on, money ordered paid in 90 days is being drip-fed.

An international conglomerate owed $27.5 million by Solid Energy has issued a High Court challenge to the arrangement which the state-owned mining company's creditors voted through last....

Sixty-five staff to axed as operator admits there is no chance whatsover of finding a buyer for Waikato mine that's cost about $500,000 a month to keep open.

New Zealand Steel's blue collar workforce has agreed to forego annual bonus payments during unprofitable years.

The recent rally in Z shares convinced Infratil and the Super Fund that it was time to sell.

Infratil will book a profit of $392m on the sale of its remaining 20pc stake in Z Energy.

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