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⚡🍿 One man. One manifesto. Many portfolios. His name is MegaWatts and he has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to save households thousands on their energy bills, save the country $11 billion every year, slash our emissions, keep the lights on, grow the economy, and help New Zealand lead the world.✊ Will he grasp it? Or will others step in and steal his thunder in next year’s ‘electric election'?
📈 ⛽ 🚢 New Zealand’s energy system is expensive, emissions-intensive and very vulnerable to shocks. Our 2025 policy manifesto shows what needs to be done to fix that and it is not pie-in-the-sky thinking. It’s an achievable and affordable plan using technology that exists today, but it requires greater political ambition to bring it to life.
💲 It’s now in our national interest (and our economic self-interest) to use more locally-produced electrons in electric machines rather than expensive foreign molecules in fossil fuel machines. See the vision 👉 rewiring.nz/manifesto.
And send Simon 'MegaWatts' Watts and the opposition parties a message to let them know you back it.
Note: this video was produced by Rewiring Aotearoa and used AI tools.
New South Wales gets the memo about the importance of finance and announces scheme offering zero interest loans to households to upgrade to electric stuff; plug-in solar gets the tick of approval to go on sale in the UK soon and the New York Times says it could 'change America'; EVolocity takes electrification to the streets to gets the kids inspired (and eventually employed); a tour of the amazing recycling business Redwood Materials; Think Solar and BYD give it away now; and a skit that cuts close to the bone for many solar dads.
Read moreDownloadAdvances in technology and falling costs mean customer-owned solar and batteries can play a critical role in New Zealand’s energy infrastructure - improving affordability, resilience and sustainability. Multiple trading relationships (MTR) and peer-to-peer trading would enable this potential by increasing competition, customer choice, and innovation in the electricity market, unlocking greater consumer benefits from customer solar and batteries.
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