Tag: Electricity

By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific news editor There are conflicting reports of the official death toll from this week's massive earthquake in Vanuatu as rescue...

By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist World Vision's Vanuatu country director says electricity and water are still affected in the capital Port Vila and strategic...

From RNZ's Mata with Mihingarangi Forbes  Labour leader Chris Hipkins believes there are better ways to bring down the cost of housing, electricity and groceries...

By Anish Chand in Suva Energy Fiji Ltd (EFL) has warned that the Monasavu and Nadarivatu hydropower schemes may need to shut down if it...

By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea began New Year 2023 with sizzling fireworks that lit up the skies. But our hopes of shrugging...

ANALYSIS: By Soheil Mohseni, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington and Alan Brent, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Globally, the...

By Felix Chaudhary in Suva People’s Alliance party leader Sitiveni Rabuka says the FijiFirst government is not fit to run the country because it cannot...

PNG Post-Courier PNG Power Limited -- faced with a business on the brink of total collapse due to ageing infrastructure -- is losing K25 million...

By Jordan Bond, RNZ News reporter In the same year that the government declared a climate emergency, imports of an especially dirty type of coal...

By Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby PNG Power Limited managing director Flagon Bekker resigned over the weekend citing family issues after serving the Papua New...

ANALYSIS: By Tony Heynen, The University of Queensland; Paul Lant, The University of Queensland, and Vigya Sharma, The University of Queensland Australia’s nearest neighbour, Papua...

By RNZ Pacific Papua New Guinea's former Prime Minister, Peter O'Neill, has been committed to stand trial for charges of misappropriation and official corruption A Waigani...

By Evi Mariani and Apriadi Gunawan in Jekarta and Medan Indonesia's Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya paid a visit to President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo...

The viability of large electric vehicles (EVs) as replacements for current diesel buses is to be tested with a project that will see New...

Estonia may lie a continent and an ocean away from the two biggest polluters in the world – China and the United States –...

China is currently building more coal plants than it needs and in doing so is misallocating capital at an unprecedented rate. As of July 2016,...

The French government plans to pave 1000 kilometers of its roads with solar panels in the next five years, which will supply power to...