{"id":309250,"date":"2026-03-02T10:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T10:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/309250\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T10:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T10:27:10","slug":"central-hawkes-bay-district-council-exploring-solar-power-opportunities-for-generating-renewable-energy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/309250\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Hawke\u2019s Bay District Council exploring solar power opportunities for generating renewable energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hawkes Bay Today<\/p>\n<p>1 Mar, 2026 11:49 PMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Central Hawke&#8217;s Bay Mayor Will Foley said making it easier to install systems without resource consent saves money and time. Photo \/ Central Hawke&#8217;s Bay District Council<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Central Hawke\u2019s Bay District Council is consulting with the community about making it easier for farms, businesses and landowners to generate their own renewable energy. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         The council has proposed changes that align with the Government\u2019s recent National Policy Statement for Renewable Energy Generation, which means landowners and businesses would<br \/>\n         no longer need to apply for resource consent to install small-scale solar generation systems that power their own site.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"BseiQmTTCbyVEQR\" style=\"display:none\">Central Hawke\u2019s Bay Mayor Will Foley said the change was about making it easier for people to generate their own electricity. <\/p>\n<p class=\"BseiQmTTCbyVEQR\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cBased on feedback previously from our community and aligning with current solar uptake, our current rules around renewable energy were too restrictive,\u201d Foley said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BseiQmTTCbyVEQR\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cMaking it easier to install systems without resource consent makes sense, improves resilience and saves money and time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hawkes Bay Today 1 Mar, 2026 11:49 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1443,1561,10166,1853,1259,41336,5205,7557,4526,1667,6043,12705,2082,14639,29714,1976,82456,1446,111,43,139,69,12968,10112,9999,4166,165,102],"class_list":{"0":"post-309250","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-about","9":"tag-bay","10":"tag-businesses","11":"tag-central","12":"tag-community","13":"tag-consulting","14":"tag-council","15":"tag-district","16":"tag-easier","17":"tag-energy","18":"tag-exploring","19":"tag-farms","20":"tag-for","21":"tag-generate","22":"tag-generating","23":"tag-hawkes","24":"tag-landowners","25":"tag-making","26":"tag-new-zealand","27":"tag-news","28":"tag-newzealand","29":"tag-nz","30":"tag-opportunities","31":"tag-power","32":"tag-renewable","33":"tag-solar","34":"tag-their","35":"tag-with"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}