The Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment (MBIE) has developed a definition of energy hardship and an initial set of measures that will be used to monitor energy hardship over time.

Every year from 2009 - 2012 we released a full set of energy sector-wide Reference Scenario projections of energy supply, demand, and emissions. This series has been replaced with the New Zealand’s Energy Outlook: Insight series which focuses discussion on specific parts of the energy system.

In late 2023, we sought feedback on policy that will set the direction and pace of change for energy in New Zealand.

sector and its governance structures. In 2019-20, the Government established new workstreams to action many of the Review’s recommendations.

This page describes the petroleum and minerals regulatory system, its objectives and our qualitative assessment of it. It also lists the main statutes and changes to regulation either planned or in progress.

As part of Electrify NZ, the Government has committed to delivering a regulatory regime for offshore renewable energy to enable investment and deliver clean energy at scale.

This page lists energy statistics and modelling publications, technical papers, reports and guides produced by us or for us.

The Government is taking action to unlock private investment in hydrogen.

This page contains data tables for oil production, transformation and consumption. It also includes some brief outlines of distribution and storage of oil products in New Zealand.

We are working with the Ministry for the Environment and the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority to reduce emissions from the industry sector and process heat through energy efficiency and fuel switching.