{"id":7595,"date":"2024-08-21T12:34:29","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T00:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/new-zealand\/clean-energy\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T09:34:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T20:34:27","slug":"clean-energy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/clean-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Clean energy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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A clean energy future<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Everyone deserves clean, renewable energy. It\u2019s cheaper, more sustainable, and makes our planet more green and peaceful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aotearoa needs heaps more solar & wind energy \u2013 let\u2019s work together to transform our energy system!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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New Zealand\u2019s energy system is broken<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

New Zealand is a country rich in renewable resources that could power our whole society \u2013 with electricity generated from existing hydro and lots more solar, wind and geothermal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet the energy system is broken. It incentivises the Gentailers (the four big power companies) to keep burning fossil fuels and charge us all more for electricity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The free market model installed in the 1990s<\/a> delivers higher prices for everyday energy users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

High power prices harm the health and wellbeing of any one of us trying to heat our home and look after wh\u0101nau.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the continued use of fossil fuels risks our shared future as it makes the climate crisis worse, and slows down our efforts to adapt to the impacts of the climate crisis.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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A manufactured electricity crisis<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

New Zealand is wealthy in potential energy resources, yet the four big electricity generators are ripping us off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1 in 5 households in Aotearoa report having trouble paying the power bill<\/a>. 1 in 8 are cutting back on heating because of high costs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile in 2022-23, the big four electricity companies took in $2.61 billion<\/a>. That’s about $7.1 million a day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it doesn\u2019t need to be this way!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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Averting the energy crisis, averting the climate crisis<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Modern society\u2019s addiction to fossil fuels is driving warming oceans, the melting Arctic and species extinctions. The climate crisis is right now destroying whole communities with extreme flooding and fire events.<\/a> The United Nations has called this \u2018code red for humanity<\/a>\u2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everyone deserves to live free from fear of wildfires, floods and droughts. We need to get off fossil fuels to have a chance to reduce emissions and climate pollution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By rapidly moving Aotearoa towards 100% clean renewable energy, we can stabilise our impact on the climate. The actions we take now will avoid even-worse disasters in the future.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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