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'New Zealand can't afford not to electrify,' says Q&A's Jack Tame in the introduction to a story about Rewiring Aotearoa's new paper Investing in Tomorrow. He talks to Dr Saul Griffith about the savings at a household level, the $29 million a day electrification opportunity for the country as a whole, the economic slam dunk of rooftop solar and why the Government should be looking to give favourable finance to customers who can become part of our energy infrastructure.
Watch the full episode on TVNZ+ here.
Rewiring Aotearoa is in favour of universal Road User Charges as we believe it will address an artificial market distortion for vehicles that is not in New Zealand’s economic, fuel security, or resilience interests. Here's what we told the Select Committee.
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Read moreDownloadOur Political Power series aims to show that going electric is good for everyone, no matter where you sit on the political sprectrum. Whether you're looking to lower costs, reduce emissions or increase resilience, it increasingly makes sense at an individual, community and country level and ACT's Todd Stephenson, who bought an electric Jeep around one year ago and built his new home in Queenstown to run on electrons, is a good example of that.
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