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New Zealand home owners can now get independent, tailored information on how they can live in warmer, healthier homes that cost less to run.

Associate Energy Minister Harry Duynhoven today announced one of the largest onshore blocks offers in recent years, in opening the Onshore Taranaki Basin Blocks offer.

I am pleased to be here to celebrate the launch of this technology that will provide rural areas with electricity supply that is more reliable, safer and better quality.

More New Zealanders can look forward to enjoying the benefits of healthier and more energy efficient homes, as the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority seeks partners to deliver interest free loans and grants to homeowners for energy efficiency and heating solutions.

Government Spokesperson on Energy Efficiency and Conservation, Jeanette Fitzsimons, visits Hamilton City Council to congratulate them on their initiative to encourage solar water heating by waiving building consent fees.

Energy Minister David Parker has thanked Meridian Energy chief executive Keith Turner for his vision and leadership over the past nine years he has spent at the helm of the state-owned energy company.

New Zealand and Japan signed a treaty today which allows New Zealand to hold some of its emergency oil reserves in Japan.

An Innovation Fund to encourage smart innovations that will lead to the uptake of solar water heating and heat pump water heating technologies was launched today by Jeanette Fitzsimmons, Government Spokesperson on Energy Efficiency and Conservation.

The International Energy Agency has praised New Zealand on the design of its proposed Emissions Trading Scheme, says Climate Change Minister David Parker.

Nick Smith’s attack today on the government’s vision for sustainable transport asserted wrongly that the New Zealand Energy Strategy plans for growth in electricity demand of 0.4 percent per annum, Energy Minister David Parker says.

Generating energy from waves or tides around New Zealand comes a step closer today, with the Government offering funding to set up generating devices.

Energy Minister David Parker has moved to allay concerns the government wants to outlaw plasma TVs and old fridges.

Energy Minister David Parker says if New Zealand had continued on a path of building new gas-powered generation the country’s power prices might have soared.

Jeanette Fitzsimon's response to Paul Kinley of the Canterbury Property Investors Association

The NZ Energy Strategy sets the country on a path towards clean, renewable energy

Speech for launch of the New Zealand Energy Efficiency and Conservation Strategy

Energy Minister David Parker today announced the appointment of four new members to the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority (EECA).

The government will introduce the Biofuels Bill into Parliament next week, which will bring into force the biofuels sales obligation.

Energy Minister David Parker today announced four appointments to the Electricity Commission.

Government Spokesperson on Energy Efficiency and Conservation, Jeanette Fitzsimons, today congratulated Westland District Council for its initiative to encourage solar water heating by waiving building consent fees.

The gas industry continues to work not only internally, but also across other sectors and with Government, to achieve the best safety outcomes for New Zealand

The industry is fundamentally optimistic and is actively and constructively engaging in problem solving across a variety of geological, engineering and commercial disciplines