No Right Turn

Last month National announced its solar power policy. It was the bare minimum , a version of the Ratepayer Assistance Scheme expansion advoc...

Household solar power is having a moment at the moment, and encouraging it is looking like a total no-brainer for any government. Even Natio...

I've been thinking a bit about National's "investment boost", the centrepiece of its dogshit budget. Its pitched by the go...

The Herald had another announcement today about a new solar farm being officially opened - this time the 63MW Lauriston solar farm in Cante...

RNZ has a story this morning about the expansion of solar farms in Aotearoa , driven by today's ground-breaking ceremony at the Tauhei ...

Aotearoa is currently suffering from one of its regular electricity crises, thanks to systematic underinvestment by the power cartel . Meanw...

NewsHub had an article yesterday about progress on Aotearoa's largest solar farm , at "The Point" in the Mackenzie Country. 4...

Last month, the Greens introduced their clean power policy , promising loans and grants to upgrade homes to add solar panels and be energy e...

Over the weekend the Greens released their clean power policy , promising a "clean power payment" of up to $6000, interest-free lo...

The Guardian reports that France is going to require all large car-parks to be covered by solar panels : All large car parks in France wil...

Newsroom reports that Nova Energy is planning Aotearoa's biggest solar farm , and its truly massive: A 400 megawatt solar farm planned...

Back in November, RNZ reported on the scale of changes we needed to make to decarbonise the economy . One of those changes was to increase t...

The other day I posted about the renewable energy challenge if Aotearoa is to meet its climate change goals, arguing that we can do it . Tod...

RNZ reports on the other story to come out of the government's emissions budget Cabinet paper: the scale of the changes we need to make...

Over the past few years I've been watching the price of solar energy fall, to the point where it now outcompetes fossil fuels, and wonde...

A group of solar panel installers has applied for resource consent for a new PV solar farm in Northland : A massive 12ha solar panel farm –...

If we are to avoid dangerous levels of climate change, we need to decarbonise the economy and shift our energy supply completely to renewabl...

Yesterday the Greens released their second big election policy - on energy. The short version is "more solar, less coal". They...

Genesis Energy is planning to build the country's biggest PV solar farm : Power generator and retailer Genesis Energy says it is in adv...

As the climate crisis escalates, it is now obvious that we need to radically decarbonise our economy. The good news is that its looking easy...