Working together to meet the needs of all New Zealanders

The Electricity Authority has recently released a green paper start the necessary discussion and debate among all electricity stakeholders around decentralisation and the future of our energy system.

The Authority welcomes feedback from people and organisations with an interest in the energy system. This includes iwi and hapū leaders, local government and civil defence groups, community groups, consumer representatives, housing developers, education facilities, industrial and commercial organisations, and, of course, the wider energy sector.

We will use this feedback to help shape our regulatory thinking about what a more decentralised electricity system might look like for New Zealand, how this might benefit consumers, and what might be needed to gain these benefits.

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We will be making a submission. If you would also like to make one – submissions are due at 5pm on June 4th, 2025, and involve sending feedback on questions asked in the green paper but I am sure as long as they are concise other matters can be covered. Alternatively email jo@wildingpinenetwork.org.nz if you prefer to put any feedback directly through WPN. We will upload our submission to this news paper once it has been submitted. Feedback goes to decentralisation@ea.govt.nz. You can either download the paper from the EA website https://www.ea.govt.nz/projects/all/meeting-the-future-needs-of-new-zealanders/consultation/working-together-to-meet-the-needs-of-new-zealanders/ .