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Greenpeace Budget Response: Meridian Sell-Off Could Cost Economy Billions

Blog entry by NBennet | May 16, 2013

Responding to today’s Budget, which includes plans to sell off New Zealand-owned Meridian Energy, Nathan Argent, Greenpeace’s chief policy advisor, said: “The half-baked decision to sell clean energy gem Meridian could lose the economy...

The World's Largest Solar Plant

Blog entry by Daniel Schreiber | February 17, 2014

Photo credit: Brightsource Energy In the heart of the Californian Mojave desert, the world’s largest solar plant officially opened last week. The  Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System  is a project conceived by Google, NRG...

EvolocityNZ - Electric super cars come to NZ

Blog entry by Nathan Argent | October 13, 2014

Some of the most exciting and rapid changes in the way we shift to doing things in a cleaner, smarter way are happening in one of the most personal aspects of our lives: the car. Many Kiwi’s love their wheels and anyone who loves...

Huntly switch to clean energy leaves soot on Key’s face

Blog entry by Nathan Argent | August 6, 2015

Good news. Huntly power station, the remnant of a polluting, coal based power system in New Zealand will be shutting down its choking smoke stacks in favour of clean energy sources like solar and wind. Genesis, the company that runs...

Moving beyond oil

Page | April 21, 2011 at 12:33

We know that the world won’t end it’s dependence to oil overnight, but the phase out of fossil fuels has to start today. The good news is that many of the solutions we need to move beyond oil already exist. And together we can begin to remove the...

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2013 Budget Must Back Kiwi Innovation

Blog entry by NBennet | May 16, 2013

Backing home-grown clean energy in today’s Budget could kick-start a multi-billion dollar bonanza for New Zealand’s economy, creating tens of thousands of jobs. Investing just $500million in clean energy innovation could see the...

Clean energy centre the start of something big

Blog entry by Nathan Argent | June 30, 2011

Yesterday saw the official opening of the New Zealand Clean Energy Centre – the state of the art facility on the shores of the stunning Lake Taupo. The modern and architecturally spectacular building sits comfortably amongst the...

The cleantech political race begins

Blog entry by Nathan | May 23, 2011

This weekend, Labour fired the starting gun on their election campaign by offering a glimpse of their vision for rebuilding the nation's economy . Bruised from the debate that engulfed last week’s budget cuts, the opposition party...

No more excuses: why leaders can save the climate

Blog entry by Nathan Argent | April 29, 2015

Last week, a new joint report crafted by the pointy-headed people at Bloomberg and the United Nations has declared that the uptake in clean energy globally has reached 'industrial' scale. Power sources like solar and wind are now...

Bridges admits his ‘all of the above’ energy approach is just “good rhetoric”

Blog entry by Rosalind Atkinson | March 24, 2014

On Thursday, our Minister for Energy, Simon Bridges, attended the National Energy Research Institute (NERI) organised Energy Conference in Wellington, in order to launch his Smart Grid Forum initiative. It would be great if this...

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