The case for energy loans: read our latest explainer
In a cross-submission, Rewiring Aotearoa has responded to a range of concerns raised by other submitters in the Energy Competition Task Force's consulation.
Please find below our cross-submission on some key common themes from submitters on Consultation paper - Requiring distributors to pay a rebate when consumers export electricity at peak times. These are the points where we feel particularly compelled to comment. We have included some specific quotes from submissions, but certainly not all relevant quotes.
As an overarching comment, some submissions included significant statements as if they were fact with no backing evidence. Several even noted they are aware of evidence of certain things, yet don’t provide this evidence or point to where it can be found. We recommend that the Task Force track down such evidence and confirm you are confident in this before taking any decisions based on it.
The submission focusses on the following:
1. It is good to see consumers getting their voices heard
2. Concerns of wealth transfers
3. Obsession with aggregators and control
4. Claims that batteries can’t reduce any network costs
5. Location based value and low visibility of LV network
6. Failing to undertake good consumption tariff design as excuse
8. Concerns consumers with batteries will themselves be disadvantaged by SETs
9. Correcting a few incorrect assumptions
In the last Electric Avenue of 2025, we look at the two biggest trends in the world of energy; the Government goes electric for its fancy fleet upgrade; Nick Offerman offers his services to a US campaign extolling the virtues of EVs; Australia shows what's possible in new homes when you add solar, batteries and smart tech; a start-up selling portable solar and battery systems that wants it to be as easy and common as wi-fi; and The Lines Company looks to put some solar on the roof of the Ōtorohanga Kiwi House.
Read moreDownloadWhen it comes to electric farming, "the numbers are becoming undeniable," says Nicholson Poultry's Jeff Collings. With 60kW of solar, a Nissan Leaf as a 'farm quad', electric mowers, an electric ute that can run a water blaster, and even a chicken manure scraper made out of a wrecked Tesla that, as Rewiring's Matt Newman says, looks a bit like something out of Mad Max, "almost everything is electric". There aren't many others in New Zealand who have gone this far down the electric road. And, with his electric Stark Varg, the fastest off-road motorbike in the world, he's obviously having plenty of fun on that road, too.
Read moreDownload