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Old Man Gas likes to stay up with the play. He's hip. He's cool. He uses words like 'lit' and 'fire' around the young'uns🔥 and he's always keeping an eye out for the latest technologies - except, of course, for those pesky electric ones that render him obsolete in our homes.
The Gas Industry Company recently released a report showing how much it would cost to switch off the gas network and move to electric options. There were plenty of inaccuracies and unrealistic assumptions. It also completely ignored the role of rooftop solar to bring electricity costs down.
You can read our response to that report here.
And you can see a number of case studies showing households saving thousands every year on their energy bills by getting off gas, petrol and diesel, embracing electric space and water heating, cooking and driving, and installing solar and batteries.
So, are you going to believe these New Zealanders who have told their story to a fiercely independent organisation that works to reduce bills for customers? Or are you going to believe an industry that's trying everything it can to prop up a declining business?
Don't invest in the wrong tech. Kick Old Man Gas to the curb and make your next purchasing decision electric.
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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