A bigger New Zealand base in Antarctica, costing about $150 million, will need more electricity – hopefully from renewable sources. David Williams reports for Newsroom.

The fifth Annual Energy Issues map for New Zealand shows an energy sector grappling with the risks and opportunities of digitalisation, decarbonisation and decentralisation (the ‘3Ds’).

Apr 26 -  The energy sector is taking the lead in developing a model for its own future.

Fifteen years after New Zealand first proposed a carbon tax to address climate change, the country’s policy-makers have apparently learned nothing.

EMANZ is delighted to announce today that Jason Anderson, President and CEO of Cleantech San Diego, is confirmed as a second Keynote speaker for its low emissions conference in May.

Apr 12 - Banning new oil and gas exploration is a crude and unnecessary way to achieve emissions reduction goals and blights New Zealand’s entire energy sector, says the BusinessNZ Energy Council.

Mar 13, 2018  -   The new system will help in power production and extend the life of solar panels.  To help companies establish new energy sources for their operations, Thailand-based Siam Cement Group (SCG) has developed a solar energy generating system that will stay afloat in reservoirs. These reservoirs supply mostly to factories that are located in Thailand’s flat central region.

Jan 18, 2018  -  Our future selves might look back and wonder how we ever handled having just plain old glass in our windows. Curtains or blinds might get the flick in favor of a variety of smart windows that can tint themselves or turn opaque on command, and now a team of German engineers has demonstrated a new design. Dubbed Large-Area Fluidic Windows (LaWin), the system uses iron particles suspended in liquid to block sunlight at different levels and harvest heat energy from the Sun.

Dec 20, 2017  - The New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade has today released a video calling for international action against the US$425 billion annual spend on fossil fuel subsidies. “Many countries have made political commitments to reduce these harmful subsidies, but progress has been too slow,” warns Vangelis Vitalis, Deputy Secretary, New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. “We believe that a solution for addressing this lack of action is to drive enforceable change through the World Trade Organisation (WTO).” Last week New Zealand’s Minister for Trade and Export Growth, David Parker, presented this proposal to…

Nov 29, 2017  - Executive Director of the Sustainable Business Council, Abbie Reynolds, says climate change could be the greatest economic disruption in our lifetimes and the largest driver of innovation since World War Two.  The Sustainable Business Council has this morning publicly released its submission to the Productivity Commission on the transition to a low emissions economy. Abbie Reynolds says leading Kiwi businesses are increasingly putting climate change at the centre of their strategy and business models. They see the transition to a low emissions economy as one of the biggest business opportunity in the foreseeable future. "International research…

Nov 29, 2017  -  Some overseas reports say petrol cars may be obsolete by 2026 but either way the massive switch to electric vehicles will be the biggest disruptive change to people’s lives in more than 100 years, NZTech chief executive Graeme Muller says. As New Zealand’s 15,000 motor mechanics get ready for the exciting electric vehicle (EV) era, petrol cars will soon begin to phase out in the biggest change to transport in the modern era, Muller says. “A couple of weeks ago, I was at a conference on digital transformation and a presenter showed a photo of Times…