Driving investment in new energy projects
The Government has announced its next steps in leveraging public sector energy demand to drive new energy projects and help grow New Zealand’s energy supply.
The Government has announced its next steps in leveraging public sector energy demand to drive new energy projects and help grow New Zealand’s energy supply.
A Bill has been introduced to support the development of offshore renewable energy projects, including offshore wind farms, and is currently progressing through Parliament.
The Minister of Energy and Resources commissioned an independent panel of experts to lead the review. Panel members were appointed by the Minister in April 2018.
In 2018-19, the independent Electricity Price Review investigated whether the electricity market was delivering a fair and equitable price to consumers and considered improvements to future-proof the sector and its governance structures. In 2019-20, the Government established new workstreams to action many of the Review’s recommendations.
MBIE provides a weekly report to the Minister for Energy, here you can find our weekly reports from April 2024 onwards. We release these reports on a monthly basis.
New Zealand’s first Wood Energy Strategy, Wood Energy Action Plan and Government Statement on Biogas released today.
Previous energy strategy work undertaken by MBIE.
The Minister of Finance and Minister for Energy have announced a series of actions to secure New Zealand’s energy supply and build better markets for the future.
This page explains how the process for Ministerial exemptions of the minimum stockholding obligations (MSO) works for fuel companies.
The Māori and Public Housing Renewable Energy Fund was set up in 2020 to trial renewable energy solutions that aimed to improve energy affordability, and help create warm, healthy and energy efficient homes.
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