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Rewiring Aotearoa's Mike Casey writes in Newsroom about the Commerce Commission's recent draft decision on how much the electricity distribution businesses can spend in the next few years. "This $1.3 billion saving is actually a win for consumers and a step in the right direction for the energy sector. While the bills are still going up by 74 percent over the next five years, they’re not going up by as much as they could have. And if the rules change, households, farms and businesses with solar and batteries can reduce their energy bills even further."
Read moreDownload the document hereFisher & Paykel takes the crown for the country's biggest rooftop solar array - and more big businesses that start generating, the better; Octopus and Fletcher Living start a Zero Bills experiment in Canterbury; Australia shows that batteries can help the grid even if they're not tied to a virtual power plant; energy expert Michael Lieberich has a look under the hood of New Zealand's energy system and says 'don't panic'; Saul Griffith documentary looks at his electrification vision and the impact of community; and FTN Motion's Streetdog gets a seal of approval from Brisbane.
Read moreDownload"Advice that government officials tried to redact shows there is "low need" for a liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility. A newly unredacted version of modelling commissioned by the Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) was released to RNZ following a complaint to the Ombudsman. It shows that in some scenarios, no LNG is needed at all."
Mike Casey: "They're going with the cheaper option and ultimately then outgrowing that solar system very, very quickly … they'll get a solar installer who will ask for their power bills over the last few months and they'll design a solar system that's optimised for return for that particular movement in time but then you add more electricity demand."
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