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The Electricity Authority (EA), which also has a green paper out for submissions on decentralised energy production by June 4, took the unusual step of effectively endorsing the Rewiring Aotearoa report.

The report advocates rooftop solar and other small-scale renewable energy initiatives to decentralise energy production.

“We agree with Rewiring Aotearoa that New Zealand’s centralised electricity system can be complemented by more localised energy resources,” the EA’s chief executive, Sarah Gillies, said in a statement.

“Power generated at a local level can enhance resilience to climate change impacts, improve affordability, progress decarbonisation and empower communities and local economies.”

Rewiring Aotearoa argued that NZ’s energy system is broken and that “our leaders need to start backing everyday NZers, the country and the future rather than continuing to protect vested interests and fiddling around the edges”.

“Electrification and a step change in customer participation through rooftop solar and batteries offer massive economic and environmental benefits, but major barriers - such as limited finance access, outdated regulations, and biased pricing structures - are holding the country back.”

Rewiring Aotearoa’s report said that while critics would query the cost of its 59-point manifesto, it said it was “the current system that’s costing us”.

“The policies laid out in our manifesto should not be seen as a cost; they are an opportunity to invest and save, an opportunity to create a more productive economy, and an opportunity to show the world what's possible.”

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