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Andrea Vance digs into the big infrastructure deficit faced by Queenstown as it deals with rapid growth - and Rewiring Aotearoa's Josh Ellison explains how the ambitious Queenstown Electrification Accelerator will help address the region's energy concerns and turn it into the world's most electric destination.
As she wrote:
The Queenstown Electrification Accelerator, an ambitious plan for the town to become the world’s most electrified destination launched last month. The pilot will build a low-cost, low-emissions, resilient energy system, combining local rooftop generation with traditional grid power.
“If we could have an infrastructure environment where households and farms and businesses were treated as an equal part of the energy system, we’d be able to deploy a lot more solar and batteries a lot faster,” says Josh Ellison of Rewiring Aotearoa.
“Historically, electricity infrastructure has been large-scale... But now, a combination of large-scale and small-scale operating together in the system is what’s going to work.”
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.
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