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RNZ's Kate Newton looks at the decision to build and LNG terminal and speaks with Rewiring CEO Mike Casey, who is pushing for a portfolio approach of more big renewables, more solar on homes, farms and businesses, better use of existing gas reserves and coal and diesel if we really need it.
Casey acknowledged the "mild" irony of a renewables advocate pushing for coal and diesel. "But we're in a situation, through an energy system that hasn't been serving New Zealanders for so long ... where unfortunately we do need some fossil fuels," he said. "The way we get out of it is not investing in more fossil fuels, it's using the fossil fuels that we currently use, and figuring out how to reduce that consumption as fast as we can."
New South Wales gets the memo about the importance of finance and announces scheme offering zero interest loans to households to upgrade to electric stuff; plug-in solar gets the tick of approval to go on sale in the UK soon and the New York Times says it could 'change America'; EVolocity takes electrification to the streets to gets the kids inspired (and eventually employed); a tour of the amazing recycling business Redwood Materials; Think Solar and BYD give it away now; and a skit that cuts close to the bone for many solar dads.
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