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As Rewiring Aotearoa’s Electric Homes research has shown, New Zealand has already reached the electrification tipping point, so going electric and running your home and car with a combination of grid electricity and rooftop solar and batteries is already a good economic decision for most homes (and likely the best thing they can do to reduce emissions). But, as Newsroom's Marc Daalder writes about the Energy Competition Taskforce proposals (paywalled), "proposed changes to the electricity market could see Kiwis paid more for the solar power they export to the grid, and less when drawing from the grid at off-peak times".
Read moreDownload the document hereElectric homes and EVs show their worth once again by providing resilience during the recent storms; savvy landlords are installing solar and upgrading gas to electricity to help tenants - and themselves; Basis founder Danny Purcell shares some impressive numbers from his smart panel experimentation; Uber goes from green to electric as it pushes for a zero-emissions mobility platform; Air New Zealand's electric plane and airports investing in solar; and 'transcendent mobility' from Rivian's e-bike spinoff.
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