Energy

Several heavy downpours over the past month have helped to fill hydro lakes close to their brim.

The company that wants to mine the south Taranaki seabed is selling out to a foreign partner, while continuing the battle to win permission for the underwater prospecting.

Iran has the technical capability to produce an atomic bomb but has no intention of doing so, according to the head of the country's atomic energy organisation.

The Tiwai Point aluminium smelter has begun talks with power companies to continue operating beyond 2024.

Reduced Russian natural gas flows into the EU have deepened the economic bloc's energy crisis, with Germany's chemical giant BASF cutting ammonia production further due to soaring prices.

There is a risk the Ukraine conflict may spark something worse - so peace on the right terms needs to be a priority, Alexander Gillespie writes.

The Otago Regional Council has served an abatement notice to Contact Energy relating to the operation of Clyde Dam.

Europe is on edge about the restart of the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline from Russia as annual maintenance is set to end tomorrow, with governments bracing for possible further supply cuts.

The Commerce Commission is taking the power company to court for wrongly charging customers termination fees.

Russian forces are keeping up their bombardment of cities with intense shelling, cluster bombs and a missile strike, authorities say.

The rubber is meeting the road for New Zealand's first electric milk tanker today, as Fonterra's trial Milk-E takes to the streets.

Hundreds of homes in South Canterbury have had power restored after an outage caused by severe weather.

The electricity sector is undergoing huge change as companies touting different technology vie for the market share that will be left once we stop burning fossil fuels.