A Clean Energy Revolution
Clean energy is the future. Renewable energy is cheap, sustainable, and makes our planet more green and peaceful. It disrupts corporate energy systems and it’s better for our health and for our planet. We know the future we want, and clean energy is essential in how we get there. Together we must call for a clean energy future.
Everyone deserves to live free from fear of wildfires, floods and droughts. The climate crisis is right now claiming whole communities with these extreme weather events. The IPCC has called it a “code red for humanity” and confirmed that without urgent action, this situation is set to get worse.
The science clearly says that the fossil fuel age is over and we must rapidly transition our societies to be powered by clean renewable energy.
Here in Aotearoa, our electricity system is broken. It perversely incentivises big power companies to keep burning fossil fuels and not build new renewables – especially not household solar, which is owned and operated by regular people.
Successive Governments (including this one) and power companies have sat on their hands for more than 20 years when they should have been supporting a huge rollout of clean energy.
The good news is that New Zealand is well-positioned to embrace clean energy. A recent report by the Ministry of Business and Innovation confirms that despite what some Ministers in the Coalition Government are saying, there is no need for new fossil fuels to keep the lights on. Wind and solar are the cheapest sources of new electricity generation, and New Zealand could choose a clean energy future.
It’s time for the Government to step up and make the choice to lead Aotearoa into a clean energy future.