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Lines companies are watering down the new incentives they must pay out for households that supply power to the network at peak times through solar and battery systems, jeopardising the effectiveness of the scheme, advocates say. Last week, Newsroom reported that most retailers are not passing on the full value of these peak-time battery rebates from lines companies to consumers, raising concerns the policy won’t have its intended impact. Rewiring's Josh Ellison says "it is clear tipping the scales on behalf of their own profit incentive.”
Read moreDownload the document hereCould reframing energy independence as a national security issue, rather than a climate one, be our best chance to go electric? The Spinoff collects a range of views from various commentators like Liam Dann, Pattrick Smellie and Joel McManus and shows that it has clearly got the attention of the media and should be getting the attention of our politicians.
Read moreDownload"There is quite a lot of talk about EV price depreciation and resale value, but we are not really talking about petrol car price depreciation. In the next five years or so, we may start to see a big game of petrol car hot potato, first between New Zealanders, and then between other countries." That was Mike Casey writing in Newsroom in January last year but, after the current crisis, it might happen more quickly than expected.
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