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The Post gives readers a rundown of the inaugural conference and expo Electrify Wairarapa, which hopes to "break people out of the status quo and explore new technology when making business and domestic decisions".
“We want to help people to plan to electrify," says Vern Brassel, one of the main brains behind this week's Electrify Wairarapa conference and free expo. That's really what it all boils down to (on the induction cooktop, of course) and, as the story in The Post outlines, the goal of the two day event is to "update people on where the technology and opportunities are now, and make them aware of upcoming tech, so when you're thinking about the next appliance you don't just replace it with what you had before".
Fortunately, whether you're a big business looking to save money or a homeowner looking to reduce emissions, those replacements don't need to come at an environmental premium anymore.
As Simon Casey says in the story, "we're past a tipping point whereby it becomes far more economic for you to adopt renewable options, even if you have to get a loan to get solar on your house. Because especially with forecast power prices looking to increase, it's only going to get better.”
Find out more about the speakers and book your tickets to the Friday session here. electrifywairarapa.nz
Everyone is rocking on down to Electric Avenue today (this one online, not that other small one in Hagley Park in Christchurch), so let's ride the lightning: profits and electricity prices keep going up, as panels keep going down; a new paper puts a number on how much more homes with solar sell for; we're bottling things up with big and small batteries and they are eating into gas in Australia and California; transport emissions drop across the Tasman as a result of Government EV incentives, while HEB Construction electrifies its fleet; electrons are coming from above in China; and Xpeng announces the arrival of a crazy looking electric van/aircraft carrier.
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Read moreDownload"The LNG announcement from earlier this month has set the stage: electricity, and the energy sector more broadly, is set to be a major election issue this year. Casey has compared electricity to telecommunications, an area where services have become much cheaper in the last decade with technology advancing. “There are supply challenges for the grid and natural gas, and increasing pressure to find sustainable alternatives as reliance on fossil fuels becomes less viable,” he wrote in a Newsroom piece earlier this month, heralding the “electric election”.
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