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Something electric is brewing in Auckland - and teacher Charlotte McKeon is leading the charge.
Last year, she led a cohort of One Tree Hill College students through a deep retrofit project of an old Kainga Ora home, with support from local businesses (product + material suppliers, tradies etc). They successfully completed the home, showed considerable cost savings in comparison to demolishing and building new, reached Homestar 7 standard, and sold the project at auction.
The project was a major success on many different levels, whether it was bringing the community together, giving students real world experience, or providing a great demonstration of what's possible to other colleges.
Charlotte is once again embarking on a retrofit journey this year with a new derelict home, a group of excited students, and a number of willing businesses supporting the scheme.
But this time she's looking to go one step further and deliver a 'zero bills' home complete with solar, batteries and all the latest electric tech.
Teachers are always heroes in our eyes. And tradies will be the heroes of our electrification push. This is a match made in heaven
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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