The Wind Energy Association has been on the defensive this year after a couple of major wind farm projects were stymied or put under fire from critics.
The first commercial grade bioethanol-blended petrol in New Zealand was launched mid winter by Aussie-owned Gull New Zealand, the country’s smallest oil company, but critics of the government Biofuels Sales Obligation ask if it will achieve anything?
Geothermal power generation in New Zealand is in the midst of a big expansion that could double power output within five years and has the best potential among our ‘renewable’ sources of energy.
New geothermal energy developments are offering a promising new future, but new investors are being discouraged for want of exploration licensing.
Tui, the latest oil project to start production in New Zealand, might not have happened if it were not for a bit of luck and the tenacity of a Kiwi accountant graduate who drifted into oil exploration.
New Zealand has huge ‘Saudi-sized’ oil and gas potential in the deepwater surrounding the country, says GNS Science hydrocarbons marketing manager David Darby.
The world is facing daunting energy challenges – global demand is surging, oil prices are high, CO2 emissions continue to grow. Michael Taylor looks at scenarios and strategies for a sustainable energy future.
Contact Energy boss David Baldwin, a Nelson boy made good, is now steering New Zealand’s largest listed energy company down a multi-billion-dollar renewable energy future.
A UK-Australian mining company has begun exploring for oil shale in a remote Central Otago valley with the hope of one day extracting petroleum from the thick shale rock.
Will Atomised Refined Coal become a viable alternative for gas and oil? Consulting engineer Bryan Leyland explains why this process being developed across the Tasman has him so intrigued as a future source of energy.
Pike River Coal, the first new coal-miner to list on the New Zealand Stock Exchange in 28 years, is making good progress with its multi-million-dollar West Coast mine.
As the world’s energy demand soars, New Zealand must be more flexible in tackling targeted reductions in greenhouse gas emissions or our medium term future could prove “pretty nasty”, warns Solid Energy chief executive Don Elder.
Neptune Power’s ambitions to install up to 7000 turbines about 40 metres deep in Cook Strait to produce power from tidal flows is a step closer to realisation.
As New Zealand hurtles towards the possible, or probable, introduction of a price on carbon in the form of an emissions trading scheme, a number of influential industry associations have been concerned enough to write collectively to the Minister of Climate Change issues, David Parker, to register significant concern about the timetable being pursued (emissions trading to be introduced by 2008) and the process being followed.
Kyoto protocol time frame too short