As electricity lines companies around New Zealand last week rallied to provide an unprecedented level of support to their cyclone-afflicted colleagues in the North Island, the country's logistics fragility hampered proceedings.
Electricity sector praise from Minister of Energy and Resources Megan Woods has been gratefully acknowledged, but the ENA warns the full post-cyclone power recovery in the North Island will be a long-term project.
A Ministerial inquiry into land use causing woody debris and sediment-related damage in Tairāwhiti/Gisborne and Wairoa has been embraced by the Electricity Networks Association (ENA).
Electricity Networks Association chief executive Graeme Peters emphasised the need for an urgent review of the Electricity (Hazards from Trees) Regulations 2003 when interviewed on Morning Report by Guyon Espiner this Wednesday morning (22/2/2023).
An unprecedented level of industry support and resource is being provided to North Island electricity lines companies whose networks have been devastated by Cyclone Gabrielle.
Northern electricity lines companies demonstrated their decarbonisation activities in the second of a regular series of online stakeholder briefings organised by ENA and the Northern Energy Group in September.
ENA has commissioned an economic model of what New Zealand consumers are likely to be spending on energy by 2035 to show the benefits of electrification.
ENA supports the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority’s proposal to require all residential electric vehicle (EV) chargers sold in New Zealand to have ‘smart’ capabilities.