Energy

National electricity grid operator, Transpower, is investigating the potential for a computer system to forecast the amount of electricity likely to be generated at any given moment from wind.

Small electricity retailer Powershop has hit out at a scheme that will require power companies to pay customers $10.50 a week during any future public electricity saving campaigns.

Solid Energy, which, contentiously, is looking at options to utilise vast reserves of lignite in Southland and Otago, has welcomed the Government announcement up to 49% of some state owned enterpri

A multimillion-dollar fund from the sale of a power scheme could protect an endangered fund to help Dunedin people pay their power bills.

The first big components for TrustPower's Mahinerangi wind farm are due to be transported to the site above the Waipori hydro-electric power scheme this morning.