Tag: Electricity
NZ election 2023: Better ways than taxation to bring down living...
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...
‘Conserve energy’ plea to Fiji as Monasavu, Nadarivatu dams run low
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...
Sizzling New Year but blackouts continue to hold PNG to ransom
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...
Small communities could be buying, selling and saving money on electric...
ANALYSIS: By Soheil Mohseni, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington and Alan Brent, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
Globally, the...
FijiFirst not fit to run country over ‘dry taps – no...
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...
Power theft, meter tampering, outages cost PNG provider K25m a month
PNG Post-Courier
PNG Power Limited -- faced with a business on the brink of total collapse due to ageing infrastructure -- is losing K25 million...
NZ imported more than a million tonnes of ‘dirty’ coal last...
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...
PNG Power chief Bekker resigns after nine months in job –...
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...
Australia wants to send 1 million vaccine doses to PNG –...
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...
Former PNG PM O’Neill to stand trial over Israeli generators purchase
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...
Calls grow for Jokowi to protect Indonesia’s Tapanuli orangutan
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...
AUT to get NZ’s first 100% electric bus in public transport...
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’s high price of energy independence – ‘we have lost our...
Estonia may lie a continent and an ocean away from the two biggest polluters in the world – China and the United States –...
China coal plant building at crossroads amid carbon pricing reforms
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,...
France plans to pave 1000 km of roads with solar panels
The French government plans to pave 1000 kilometers of its roads with solar panels in the next five years, which will supply power to...