Helen Twose talks to three winners of this year's EECA Awards for energy efficiency.

Prices have been moving up recently and they augur higher prices at the pump for consumers.

King Country Energy has warned the Electricity Authority's planned overhaul of grid charges will increase prices.

Z Energy is confident of the savings it can make from the $785m acquisition of Chevron's Caltex and Challenge! chains.

Energy Minister Simon Bridges says the abundance of renewable electricity has made New Zealand complacent about energy productivity.

Z Energy is about to open the country's first commercial scale biofuels plant in a bid to become part of the emissions solution.

Entrants in the EECA energy awards saved or generated the equivalent of the annual energy use in New Plymouth during the past year.

Some power customers could be in for a nasty jolt if proposed changes to national electricity grid costs go ahead.

The former state owned enterprise will soon be known as Mercury.

Genesis Energy has negotiated a high price from other generators who want to keep them as back-up.

New Zealand shares fell as demand dried up ahead of a Reserve Bank update, with Meridian Energy and Vector hit hardest.

New Zealand shares were mixed. The NZX 50 Index reached a record high but more companies fell.

Z Energy will get back $9.5 million of the amount it paid last year to settle a dispute with New Zealand Customs.

Henri Eliot talks publishing a skills matrix that provides shareholders with the information needed to evaluate a board's skill set mix.

NZ Aluminium Smelters will go to the Supreme Court in a bid to overturn earlier decisions on the payment for statutory holidays that fell on a weekend.

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Julian Kardos, managing director of Electric Kiwi, talks five things every Kiwi should know about electricity.

An expert from Norway says if New Zealand is serious about getting motorists into electric cars the government needs to act.

A meeting of oil producers to discuss a global pact on freezing production is unlikely to take place in Russia on March 20, inside sources say.

Even if Saudi Arabia wins its struggle with US shale producers over market share, it will face a new billion-barrel adversary.

Global equity markets have received a boost from an upturn in crude oil as the market focused on a forthcoming meeting of major oil producers.

Saudi Arabia - Stung by falling oil prices, Saudi Arabia has cut spending and subsidies as part of harsh austerity measures that threaten the lavish welfare programs underpinning its stability.

The departing chief of Royal Dutch Shell's U.S. division says the failed quest to find crude in Arctic waters off Alaska is still a point of pride because it demonstrated the company's technical expertise.

'Liquid American Freedom' - the first US crude bound for overseas markets in 40- years has left the Gulf coast headed for France.

The extent of Solid Energy's cutbacks is revealed in the company's evidence to Parliament's commerce select committee.