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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.
When Mike Casey bought his house near Cromwell, it came with gas bottles on the side of the home for water and an expensive diesel system for the underfloor heating. He replaced both of them with a Steibel Eltron system and it's been saving him money ever since. As technical manager Bhawesh Singh told him at the Electrify Queenstown conference, there has been a big influx in enquiries from homes looking to get off the molecules and onto electrons.
Read moreDownloadConfidence that cutting regulations to make solar power more accessible - won't jeopardise people's safety. A new Regulation Ministry reports laid out a potential blueprint to legalise plug-in solar and reduce the time and cost of panel installation. Rewiring Aotearoa CEO Mike Casey shares his thoughts with Andrew Dickens.
The burgeoning demand for solar was also a chance to address a mismatch between the numbers of training opportunities available and young people searching for work, Casey said. "The mums of New Zealand are telling me that there's not enough apprenticeships for their kids and the solar installers of New Zealand are telling me there's not enough trained people."
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