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Newsroom's Marc Daalder digs into the Boston Consulting Group's new report Energy to Grow. As co-author Richard Hobbs said: “Really, the main story of what’s happened in the last three years [since the last report] is just the bottom has fallen out of the gas market. We’ve seen gas supply decline 45 percent in the last six years – dramatically below what anyone was forecasting. That context, overlaid with a dry year in 2024, really exposed quite a few fragilities in our energy system.”
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Political Power has gone local! Dr Nick Smith, mayor of Nelson and ex-National Party minister, is an early adopter when it comes to electric machines but, through his efforts with the council and his close involvement with the Ratepayer Assistance Scheme, he's also embracing one of Rewiring's core mantras: once you've electrified your own life, electrify someone else's life, too.
Read moreDownloadWhether it's the growing number of electric buses, new electric trains for the lower North Island and City Rail Link, or new electric ferries, we love seeing more electric transport options in our big cities. It's also good to see some of our smaller cities like Palmerston North, Timaru and Nelson going electric and, as is almost always the case, the drivers reckon it's better on electrons. At the Electrify Nelson expo, we spoke with one driver Lee about the city's electric buses. And he definitely wouldn't go back to diesel.
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