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New Zealand: Energy

More in New Zealand: Energy
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Amazon rain forest .. not at risk from enthanol fuel production 2500km away

Brazillian ambassdor snaps back on rain forest-for-fuel claims

3 Jun 2008

The Brazilian Ambassador to New Zealand Manoel Gomes-Pereira, tired of his country being used as a piñata in the rainforests debate, has taken the unusual step for a diplomat of making a spirited public defence of Brazil’s biofuels strategy.

Red Stag Timber's Waipa mill at Rotorua ... award-winning co-generation from wood waste

Red Stag co-generation plant puts $1m a year on bottomline

3 Jun 2008

Red Stag Timber of Rotorua, operator of the Waipa Sawmill, has emerged as the poster child of the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority’s campaign to use renewable energy from wood fuel.

US$35 per ton will prompt power company investment and consumer changes

US study: US$35 per ton carbon price will cut emissions 10%

3 Jun 2008

A new analysis by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business shows possible positive short-term effects of establishing a mandatory price for CO2 emissions inthe United States.

US wineries go for 100% solar power, lightweight bottles

3 Jun 2008

Elbin Blatz, a winery in California’s Napa Valley region, has installed a first-of-its-kind solar power array and the latest example of how Northern California’s wine industry is using solar power.

FutureGen.. huge clean coal opportunity now at risk

Public investment in major clear coal plant project at risk

3 Jun 2008

The public fnding plug is about to be pulled on a U$1. billion cler claol energy project in the Unired States.

Marine energy on a roll - offshore investors lining up

30 May 2008

New Zealand’s marine energy industry has been kick-started, with the Government coming in strongly behind it and international companies lining up to invest.

The Ensco 56 rig completes its work off the Taranaki coast, drilling three gas wells

New Zealand's largest gas field completed

30 May 2008

The Pohokura offshore gas field development in Taranaki has been completed.

Open hydro turbine Crest plans to use at Kaipara harbour ... 200 x 1MW turbines planned

Why Parker is enthisiastic about marine energy

30 May 2008

Average wave power can exceed 100 kilowatts per metre of wave crest length, on the southwest-facing coasts of New Zealand.

Kaipara Harbour .. where 200 turbines could go

Govt funding for Kaipara harbour tidal energy devices

30 May 2008

A project to generate electricity from the tides in Kaipara Harbour is to receive a grant of $1.85 million from the Marine Energy Deployment Fund.

Aorangi mountains, Wairarapa ... 10 metre height plan a backdoor ban on wind energy

Meridian fights local body troika's backdoor bid to ban windfarms

29 May 2008

Meridian Energy Ltd has launched an appeal against what it sees as a crimp on renewable energy zoning by the Masterton, Carterton, and South Wairarapa District Councils.

A way to save money? Just how will petrol prices push down car use, increase public transport demand?

New petrol price impact research under way

29 May 2008

New Government research is under way on the impact of higher petrol prices on vehicle use

Tidal power .. a kinetic "mantis" idea from the US

Recipients of millions in marine energy grants announced today

29 May 2008

Who gets the first Government grants to encourage marine energy development will be announced today.

Contact cranks part of New Plymouth plant back to life

29 May 2008

Contact Energy has announced that it will recommission part of its New Plymouth power station in response to anticipated winter electricity supply worries.

Windflow falls victim to noise issue

28 May 2008

Windflow Technology of Christchurch is the pre-eminent alternate energy production engineer in New Zealand. Yet its power generation wind turbines are being rejected on the environmental grounds that they make too much noise.

Two news wells for Taranaki's Cheal oil field

28 May 2008

Austral Pacific Energy will drill two new wells (A6 and A7) in its onshore Taranaki Cheal oil field in Stratford, New Zealand.

Electricity bosses given their orders: 90% renewables in 17 years

Electricity bosses given new policy orders

28 May 2008

The Government has issued new policy instructions to the Electricity Commission.

Trevor Mallard ... clarity needed around grid planning and protection

Update on proposed national grid regulations

28 May 2008

Two proposed national environmental standards aimed at improving the management and security of the national grid will be reconsidered and reworked.

$100m smart meter policy ushers in future appliance remote control

28 May 2008

Meridian Energy has announced progress with its $100 million smart meter programme.

Powered up solar house in Bayview USA .. pay back period here too long

Solar hot-water payback too slow

27 May 2008

New Zealanders are resisting switching to solar hot-water heating despite government grants because the payback period is too long -up to 15 years for some households.

Hydro kinetic energy .. one of the new renrewables attracting state support in the US

Continued tax incentives for renewables expected to boost growth 20%

26 May 2008

The US Senate has passed a bil extending tax credits- and authorizing US$2 billion in new bonds to boost renewable energy development.

Financiers: Is Kyoto factored into Contact Energy?

23 May 2008

Representatives of several international financial services organisations with operations in New Zealand believe that the value of the climate change regime has not been factored into the value of Contact Energy.

Greens get warm, energy-efficient houses in Budget win

23 May 2008

Almost $100 million has been secured in the Budget by the Green Party fore measures which includ increasing the energy-efficiency of New Zealand homes, making it the party’s largest-ever Budget package.

Queen goes green ... with offshore turbine

Keep your hat on Mam: Queen invests in biggest wind turbine

23 May 2008

The Queen is investing is the world's biggest wind turbine.

BP .. 44 of its 45 sites meet ISO 14001 environmental standard

BP: We've slashed emissions 24% below 2003 levels

23 May 2008

BP says it has cut its GHG emissions 24% below their 2003 level.

Govt's moratorium won't affect electricity supply - Caygill

22 May 2008

A moratorium on new thermal power plants is unlikely to affect security of supply, says the Electricity Commission.

Aggressive wind energy target being pursued in major overseas markets

Delaying the ETS risks electricity security , delays to win energy investment

22 May 2008

Delaying the Emissions Trading Scheme risks discouraging investment in new electricity generation, says Gerry Coates, Chair of the New Zealand Wind Energy Association.

Brownlee .. "last cab off rank" stations busy, power saving campaign needed

Brownlee - thermal generation shows need for power saving campaign

22 May 2008

National Party Energy spokesman Gerry Brownlee says Energy Minister David Parker should be thinking seriously about ordering a public power saving campaign for winter.

Electricity market: Prices continue to rise

20 May 2008

Electricity prices continued to rise last week.

Canadian with Kiwi connections to take over Genesis

19 May 2008

Canadian New Zealander Albert Brantley is to be the new boss of Genesis Energy, operator of the Huntly power station and New Zealand’s largest electricity retailer.

NZ energy-miser motor could lead the world

16 May 2008

A revolutionary New Zealand-designed electric motor with the potential to save huge amounts of energy and carbon has won $1.75 million of government research funding.

Gas from our coal could provide energy for 1600 years

16 May 2008

A report by New Zealand’s former technical supremo on coal, Peter Toynbee, indicates that New Zealand is in a powerful position in regard to coal-generated energy.

Nigel Brunel ... buy now

Heavy-emitters should buy now, says carbon trader

6 May 2008

New Zealand’s top 200 greenhouse-gas heavy emitters should be buying carbon credits now to protect against likely price rises as the emission trading scheme starts to kick in, says a leading leading carbon trader.

Crest Energy ready to power up the Kaipara

2 May 2008

Crest Energy plans to construct a marine turbine power generation plant in the Kaipara Harbour. The scheme will encompass around 200 completely submerged marine tidal turbines near the entrance to the harbour.

David Parker

Lines companies can’t duck thermal ban - Parker

30 Apr 2008

Lines companies will not be able to buck the Government’s ban on new thermal power generation despite the Electricity Industry Reform Amendment Bill (EIRA) seeming to give them that option, Climate Change Minister David Parker has told Carbon News.

Hutt hi-tech could ground overhead pylons fears

30 Apr 2008

Super-conducting technologies developed in the Hutt Valley could sidestep popular fears about overhead pylon transmission.

Wholesale electricity prices fall on last month

29 Apr 2008

Wholesale electricity prices were last week down compared with a month ago.

Energy use expected to saor 30% by 2030, 11% efficiency gains significant

New report: Power utilities could make efficiency impovements of up to 11%

29 Apr 2008

Energy efficiency improvements in the U.S. electric power sector could reduce electricity consumption by 7 to 11 percent more than currently projected over the next two decades.

An OptiSolar farm ... now seeking approval for the world's biggest at 16sq km

OptiSolar applies to build world's biggest (16 sq km) solar farm

29 Apr 2008

Solar energy specialist OptiSolar (http://www.optisolar.com/) has revealed plans to build the world's largest solar farm at a site in California stretching over nearly ten square miles (16 sq km).

Woodhouse ready for commercialised carbon trade-off

28 Apr 2008

Low-key investor Seeby Woodhouse indicated at several closed-door discussions in Wellington and Auckland last week that he would step into carbon trading as a kind of one-man carbon exchange and clearing house.

NZ companies join UN emissions project

28 Apr 2008

An Auckland-based public relations firm and a Wellington management consultancy have joined a prestigious United Nations programme to slash climate emissions.

Gordon Shaw ... big issue for businesses

The big business question: How do we do it?

28 Apr 2008

New Zealand businesses might know that they need to do something about their environmental performance but most are struggling to know what, says a leading management consultant.

We're five times greener than the Aussies

28 Apr 2008

New Zealand businesses are almost five times "greener" than their Australian counterparts, with a new white paper finding more than half of Australian businesses have no policy to reduce energy use.

Greens cool down on coal, but still hot on emissions

24 Apr 2008

The Green Party says that closing down the coal industry will not be a bottom-line issue in post-election coalition talks - but genuine measures to cut greenhouse gas emissions will be.

Second advertising complaint lodged against TrustPower

Power struggle as top energy companies go to war

24 Apr 2008

Two of our biggest power companies are at war for the wallets of the rapidly growing green consumer market.

Jill Caldwell ... hair splitting won't dispel perceotion that renewable energy is better

Welcome to the age of ‘black power’

24 Apr 2008

Genesis Energy might have won a round against rival TrustPower for the hearts and minds of green consumers, but it’s in danger of losing the war, warns long-time social trends analyst Jill Caldwell.

Christchurch centre starts probing methane absorbing gas molecules on sea floor

24 Apr 2008

The Centre for Advanced Engineering (CAE) in Christchurch has begun looking at the possibilities of methane-absorbing gas hydrates in New Zealand waters.

UN honours climate change ‘trailblazer’ Clark

24 Apr 2008

Prime Minister Helen Clark has been honoured as a Champion of the Earth by the United Nations for her work on climate change.

Greenpeace protesters target the Huntly coal-fired power station last year.

Green Party pledges to shut Huntly, hobble coal industry

23 Apr 2008

The Green Party is threatening to end thermal coal exports and close the Huntly coal-fired power stations.

Hau nui wind farm, near Martinborough.

It's not so bad - a Carbon News series on mitigating the impact of emissions trading down on the farm

22 Apr 2008

Fancy a wind turbine in the back paddock? It could be worth about $75,000 a year - a major boost to property profits.

US anti KFC protest ... here "extremists" are resorting to arson, acid and other tactics

The other side of the PI story: how environmental extremists are attacking NZ companies

21 Apr 2008

The private investigations firm which tried to recruit an environmentalist to provide information last night revealed to Carbon News that several companies in New Zealand are at significant risk from extremists.

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'Atrocious' and 'bizarre': experts slam Act Party's climate policy

Wed 3 Sep 2025

By Liz Kivi | The Act Party is promising to challenge New Zealand’s Paris Agreement climate target, while the coalition Government’s other minor partner, NZ First, also says it wants to reevaluate the country’s commitment to the international treaty.

Agriculture
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International scientists slam NZ govt's proposed approach to methane

13 Aug 2025

New Zealand's proposed approach to methane emissions has again been attacked by international climate scientists, with a new study saying the attempt to redefine climate target-setting by livestock-exporting countries undermines the transition to a sustainable and equitable food system

Carbon emissions
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Marginal drop in last year's regional emissions

27 Aug 2025

Regional greenhouse gas emissions were down slightly last year, with a fall in gas supply leading to a big drop in Taranaki, but more coal burnt leading to higher emissions in Waikato, according to new figures from Stats NZ

Transport
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Air NZ declares surprisingly low SAF prices

Wed 3 Sep 2025

By Pattrick Smellie | Air New Zealand is able to source sustainable aviation fuel at between 1.5 and 2.5 times the price of conventional fossil fuels used for flying, all sourced from the US.

Forestry
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Minister of Climate Change Simon Watts

Certainty crucial to emissions cuts – Watts

20 Aug 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | Climate Change Minister Simon Watts says that policy certainty is the Government’s primary lever for unlocking private capital and meeting climate targets, telling a carbon forestry conference that ETS settings are 'locked' through 2030.

Business
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Climate-friendly investment still lagging in NZ

Tue 2 Sep 2025

While local financial firms have made recent strides in climate governance and emissions reporting, New Zealand’s institutional investors are still missing in action when it comes to backing clean technologies and climate solutions, according to a new report.

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