Oil industry executives were treated to $7200 on wine tasting alone during a taxpayer-funded junket to New Zealand, the Green Party says.

Auckland Airport hopes a new energy conservation programme launched with tenants will be worth $2 million a year in savings.

Kathmandu says a cold snap last month in Australia and New Zealand helped generate more sales than anticipated.

Ireland finally struck offshore oil, or so it seemed in 2012. But two years on, the company behind the find still hasn't found a partner to develop the oil field.

Energy Minister Simon Bridges is defending a $240,000 bill for taxpayers to wine and dine 11 oil executives during the 2011 Rugby World Cup.

Tag Oil of Canada has been awarded five mineral exploration permits to hunt for platinum in the South Island.

A new way of monitoring electricity prices - which calculates what people are actually paying for their power - shows consumers faced a 2.3 per cent hike in the past year.

An overwhelming number of experienced Stockton mineworkers have volunteered for redundancy because they're fed up, says a worker.

The US will remain the world's biggest oil producer this year after overtaking Saudi Arabia and Russia as extraction of energy from shale rock spurs the nation's economic recovery.

India's ambition to skip a generation of electricity technology starting with solar panels on telecommunications towers is being hampered by dust and urban sprawl.

Australian state governments spent A$17.6 billion on subsidies for mineral and fossil fuel industries over six years, including A$8 billion to help transport coal.

General Electric clinched its biggest acquisition ever, the $17 billion purchase of Alstom's energy assets, after the resolution of the French government's last condition for the deal.

Coal dominated world energy markets last year by supplying the biggest share of demand since 1970, making it the fastest growing fossil fuel, according to an annual review by BP.

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Warren Buffett says there is another $15 billion ready to spend on building wind and solar power in the US.

An oil company manager has been ordered to pay $71,000 to his former employer after he downloaded hundreds of thousands of company documents before leaving to work at a competitor.

Germany has rejected genetically modified crops, nuclear power and magnetic levitation trains. Now, the country is adding fracking to the list of innovations it's wary of.

The Greens are open to negotiating offsetting subsidies to emissions-intensive, trade-exposed firms whose survival might be threatened by their proposed carbon tax.

Meridian Energy's Wellington head office continues to win awards for its green credentials nearly seven years after it was completed.

Fracking should not be banned in NZ, Parliament's environmental watchdog says in a landmark report, but the industry is poorly regulated and guidelines must be updated.

The responses of a community group and a leading technology business to the Canterbury earthquakes have won them a government-backed award.

A Pacific territory vulnerable to sea level rise is the first nation in the world to get 90 per cent of its electricity from renewable sources.

TSB Bank's annual profit took a hit after the New Zealand-owned lender booked a multimillion-dollar impairment on shares it holds.