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Rewiring Aotearoa was proud to be part of the inaugural Electrifying Queenstown event at Millbrook alongside more than 150 members of the local business community. DQ boss Mat Woods told Mountain Scene the idea for the event was sparked by the Electric Homes report about New Zealand becoming one of the first countries in the world to reach the ‘‘tipping point’’ and there's a positive peer pressure in the Southern Lakes air as the region attempts to create a carbon zero visitor economy by 2030. To reach that goal it will have to, as Mike Casey said at the event, electrify everything that can be electrified - and quickly. As Kinloch Wilderness Lodge's Toni Glover said, the best way to do that is 'just start'. Kudos to Destination Queenstown, the Queenstown Business Chamber and Aurora for making it happen. We'd love to see more events like this right across the country so we can share the economic and environmental opportunities of electrification to more Kiwi businesses. Where next?
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Read moreDownloadSetting a higher default 10kW export limit for customers with small scale distributed generation such as roof top solar and batteries will remove unnecessary restrictions on the power customers can send back to the grid, supporting uptake of solar and batteries and create significant benefits for all electricity customers providing lower cost, more secure and resilient electricity supply.
Read moreDownloadSchools, farmers, marae and small businesses in our communities should not be excluded from a fair deal on payments for solar power they export back to the network at peak times. That could happen if the Electricity Authority follows through on its plan to impose limits on connection sizes of who they protect with fair export pricing. We believe the limits are far too low and will exclude energy customers who deserve better. Investment in local generation and batteries incentivised by fair peak payments will benefit the whole community by helping to lower electricity bills and providing greater local resilience. Without fair payments for providing peak power, the whole community misses out. We want you to let them know it’s not on.
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