
Rewiring Aotearoa CEO Mike Casey was invited to be the keynote speaker at AgZero 2030 conference in Perth recently, where he spoke about the opportunity in front of Australian farmers to do as he has done and electrify the machines on their farms and produce as much of the energy required to run them via rooftop solar - with battery storage offering another potential revenue stream. Not only does this save farmers money, it drastically reduces emissions through diesel use and, as the Countryman reported Casey as saying, "when everyone is winning, you don't need to fight".
Read moreDownload the document hereWhen many of the poles and wires went down in Southland after the recent storms, a number of homes, farms and businesses with solar and batteries were able to keep running. And TVNZ's Jared McCulloch spoke to the owners of Fairbank Farms about their experience.
Read moreDownloadThere’s plenty of energy emanating from the ground at Te Puia in Rotorua. And there’s plenty of creative energy emanating from those studying at the New Zealand Māori Arts and Crafts Institute. Now there’s also plenty of electric energy, because the business has upgraded its fossil fuel vehicles and added a big solar system so they can run on the sun.
Read moreDownloadIn search of cleaner air, Vietnam prepares to usher in an electric motorbike era, while other developing nations go electric for the economics and the UK goes bananas for small EVs; ten years since the Paris Accord and there are many reasons to be optimistic; America's first all-electric hospital gets set to open; Pila Energy looks to get more storage into homes by focusing on appliances; Australia takes another step forward on V2G and some customers are making good money from renting out their cars; and an electric angle to the Louvre heist.
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