Don Elder has resigned as chief executive of troubled coal company Solid Energy, effective immediately.

This year is shaping up to be a very busy one for new sharemarket listings...

Electricity retailer Mercury Energy has announced its first across the board price cuts in a decade.

Meridian Energy is considering the sale of its 50 per cent stake in the A$1 billion Macarthur wind farm in Australia.

The whole Middle Eastern business is a red herring, because the US does not depend heavily on Middle Eastern oil, writes Gwynne Dyer.

New Zealand's ministers and officials have been given a new set of rules outlining how they can talk about listed companies.

Natasha King has already written her own obituary. Although it was only part of a management course run by her employer, Meridian Energy.

Power bills have jumped more than $100 this year, latest figures show - but Auckland households can expect some reprieve next year.

The government's second round of tenders for oil and gas exploration blocks has yielded 10 new exploration licences, including two in the previously unexplored Pegasus Basin.

Fracking has escaped the threat of a ban in New Zealand for now, but the days of industry self-regulation could be numbered after a report found large holes in oversight of unconventional mining by energy companies.

Oil and gas industry groups say they are not expecting a surge in fracking even though the process has been given a qualified tick by the government's environmental monitor.

The Maori Council's legal bid to block the Government's asset sales programme is based on a "misconception" about the Cabinet's role in advancing the plan, Crown lawyers argued in court yesterday.

Fracking should not be banned in NZ, a report says. PM John Key said if NZ uses the procedure, it must use 'world class standards.'