Election 2020 - Party Policies - Energy - Electricity
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- Develop a national transition strategy which includes maintaining energy security while phasing out the use of fossil fuels and examining the role of direct electric power, biofuels and hydrogen from renewable electricity for transport services and industrial use.
- Re-establish the Electricity Authority as a Sustainable Energy Commission with research, advisory and regulatory functions, and with responsibility for all fuels and a clear mandate for sustainability.
- Reform the current electricity market structure and ensure that the market encourages competition amongst generators and retailers, delivers affordable electricity and works in the national interest.
- Work with Transpower and local electricity distributers to develop a longterm strategy to ensure the grid can serve as a network connecting a distributed energy system with minimal environmental impact.
- Phase out the extraction of coal.
- Require and support existing coal users in industry and electricity generation to rapidly replace coal equipment and processes with renewable energy systems and energy efficient technologies and techniques.
- Read more here and here.
- Bring forward the target of 100 percent renewable electricity generation five years to 2030 with a review at the 2025 emissions budget.
- Significantly expand the Just Transitions unit with an additional $5 million per year, to enable us to support regions beyond Taranaki as they navigate the transition to a low emissions future.
- Extend the life of the Tiwai Point Aluminium Smelter between three and five years while a locally-led transition for Southland is developed.
- Read more here.
- Overturn the Government’s costly and harmful oil and gas ban.
- Investigate new technologies that can support a transition to a net-zero emissions economy such as carbon capture and storage.
- Support a case-by-case assessment for mining proposals on lower-quality conservation land that meet a ‘net conservation benefit’.
- Repeal the RMA and implement an environmental legal and regulatory framework that is less complex and provides more certainty to all stakeholders.
- Read more here.
- Remove the Electricity Authority and give their operations to the Commerce Commission. Ensuring that high electricity users are given confidence in pricing. Ensuring that commercial and regional New Zealand are not paying more for their electricity than they should be
- Investigate other potential storage options for ensuring electricity supply security in a 100% renewable electricity system
- Set an aspirational goal of achieving 100% renewable electricity by 2035. Whilst acknowledging the exponential marginal cost as we move closer to 100%
- Continue to support domestic electricity generation policies such as “net metering” and provide incentives for household solar panels and generators
- Read more here.
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1 Comments
Require energy companies to pay spot price for solar grid connects and not charge any premium for sales to solar or microhydro wind turbine consumers with grid access. If govt was serious about energy it would have sorted out how local supply could assist in the stability of supply and how that might also reduce the capacity of distribution infrastructure.
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