Election 2020 - Party Policies - Energy - Power
25th Jul 20, 5:55am
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- Rapidly end oil, gas, and coal extraction, to enable the necessary transition to a sustainable, just, green economy and to minimise the devastating effects of climate change.
- Transition from an ineffective Emissions Trading Scheme and introduce an effective emissions levy that provides a greater degree of certainty over the price on greenhouse gas emissions, creates improved transparency, and provides far stronger incentives for emissions reduction.
- Review the role of the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority (EECA) alongside the Sustainable Energy Commission and the broader energy governance system to ensure that there are no institutional barriers to a transition to a sustainable energy future.
- Develop national guidance on wind energy and provide planning assistance to district and regional councils, to enable them to provide sites suitable for wind farms in their plans whilst minimising impacts on local communities in advance of specific proposals.
- Provide low interest Government loans to enable affordable solar power installation and storage on New Zealand buildings, such as schools and marae, which are well-suited to solar energy use.
- Read more here and here.
- Bring forward the target of 100 percent renewable electricity generation five years to 2030 with a review at the 2025 emissions budget.
- $70m to accelerate a potential dry year storage solution, such as pumped hydro at Lake Onslow.
- Accelerate electrification of transport and industrial sectors.
- Further investing in emerging technologies, like green hydrogen, to position New Zealand as a world leader in renewable energy.
- Continuing to make energy more affordable for all New Zealanders.
- Investing $155 million in transformative energy projects as part of our shovel ready infrastructure investments. The shovel-ready investment programme will help kick-start the post-COVID rebuild by creating more than 20,000 jobs.
- Read more here and here.
- Overturn the Government’s costly and harmful oil and gas ban.
- Investigate new technologies that can support a transition to a net-zero emissions economy such as carbon capture and storage.
- Support a case-by-case assessment for mining proposals on lower-quality conservation land that meet a ‘net conservation benefit’.
- Repeal the RMA and implement an environmental legal and regulatory framework that is less complex and provides more certainty to all stakeholders.
- Read more here.
- Promote policies that actively move New Zealand towards energy sovereignty
- Investigate a hedge market structure to encourage a greater number of genuinely independent retail operators in the New Zealand retail electricity market
- Conduct a national review on our natural resources, exploring their full potential and what can be done with them
- Explore the option of including hydro generation within the new water storage schemes that are being developed and implemented in our regions
- Continue to support and encourage options of including hydrogen as a domestic and exportable fuel source with a focus on green hydrogen
- Continue to draw natural gas from New Zealand gas fields both existing and new. New Zealand must not lock out the opportunity that is presented in the Great South Basin or Canterbury Basin, as they provide surety for future gas options in New Zealand
- The retention of Tiwai will require government involvement to set out the facts as to why the smelter should be able to continue with its world leading production and the retention of thousands of jobs in Southland and its more than $450 million contribution to the New Zealand economy
- Read more here.
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