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.

A safety warning has been issued to homeowners using Weiss heat transfer units over fears they could catch fire. Some models of the

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.

Entrants in the annual EECA Awards being presented tomorrow can claim credit for energy savings equivalent to the annual power use of two Hamilton-sized cities.

Auckland-based Gentrack says it plans to raise up to $101.8 million through an initial public offer.

An Auckland lawyer is warning about solar panel issues, saying house buyers and sellers could fall into a trap if they don't know who owns them.

Despite environmental concerns, the technology that revolutionised the energy industry is spreading all over the world.

Shares in Genesis Energy closed up 26c to $1.81 after the first day of trading.

Governments must switch from fossil fuels to nuclear, wind and solar energy to avoid a global warming catastrophe in a move costing about 300 billion ($578 billion) a year.

Prices and who controls them is already an issue for this year's election, writes Fran O'Sullivan. The "market rules OK?" is not the kind of slogan that opposition parties are chanting.