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Pushy peddlers on the rise
Even some big businesses employ door-to-door salesmen, but they can carry a stigma.
McCully opens Antarctic wind farm
A new wind farm in Antarctica is expected to cut diesel use by nearly 500,000 litres a year at Scott Base and McMurdo Station.
Sea to provide power for 250,000 homes
A tidal power station on the Kaipara Harbour seafloor could be providing power to a quarter of a million homes by the end of the decade.
<i>Green Business:</i> Clean Green Cars - five years on
An ethical attitude towards business motivated Stephen Pollard to get out of the corporate game and open a second hand car yard.
Another threat to electricity network
Power companies' intentions to build new power stations have collapsed over the past year, writes Patrick Smellie of Businesswire.
Contact power station out of action for two months
Contact Energy hopes to have its Otahuhu gas-fired power station back in service in two months after cracks were found in a generator.
Electricity re-jig model's last chance - Consumer
The Government's shake up of the electricity sector could be the last chance the competitive pricing model has, says Consumer NZ chief executive Sue Chetwin.
Brownlee can't promise power prices will drop
The Government is confident its shakeup of the electricity market will slow increases in power prices ... but it is making no promises about them coming down.