Meridian Energy has fattened its dividend and is hinting of a possible return of capital next year after beating prospectus forecasts in its first annual result.

Bill Bennett talks to McConnell Dowell CEO about the firm's major undertakings.

Vector is in a High Court dispute with Inland Revenue about whether a $53m payment the electricity company received is taxable.

The stars have aligned for Contact Energy - producing an increase in profit to $234m and a second dividend increase for shareholders in two years.

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.

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

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