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Rewiring Aotearoa is supportive of the development of Publicly Available Specification for Residential solar photovoltaic (PV) and battery storage systems guidelines. These guidelines can provide a consolidated and trusted source of information to help households navigate the process of choosing and installing solar PV and batteries. There is some messaging and information in the PAS that we think needs to be changed or added to provide households with the best advice to support them to maximise benefits from solar PV and batteries. This includes removing the focus on pay back periods and informing households about cost savings from day one from solar PV and batteries financed over the life of the system. Households also need information about the potential risks of some existing lease to own sales models which provide little real benefit to households with the bulk of the savings captured in suppliers profits. Download the document to read our full submission.
Read moreDownload the document hereLast week we had an off-grid MP as part of our Political Power series. That was pretty rare, but this week we've got something even rarer: an MP who's flown an electric airplane. Before he became the National MP for Ōtaki, Tim Costley MP was a helicopter pilot and spent 23 years in the Air Force. He flew in an electric aircraft a couple of years ago as it was travelling around New Zealand and "it was phenomenal".
Read moreDownloadMinister for Regulation David Seymour has launched a review into New Zealand’s solar installation rules during a visit to Central Otago’s fully electric cherry orchard, saying it is "far too difficult" for Kiwis to adopt solar power.
Read moreDownloadGetting the government off our roof and in favour of plug-in solar; new research from ChargeNet shows EV interest rising rapidly and Rewiring modelling shows a potential $75 a week saving with a new EV; OECD lays out the issues for New Zealand's energy system and compares our electricity prices; BYD rolls out its flash charging network outside of China and looks to launch in New Zealand, while Tesla finally launches its semi truck; Nat Bullard's energy analysis; and a video of a world-first in the Rotorua forest.
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