invest in more oil and gas surveying<\/a>.<\/p>\nWinston Peters made the announcement to nearly 400 delegates and another few hundred supporters at the launch in Auckland. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n
Green co-leader Chl\u00f6e Swarbrick said the plan would return control to New Zealanders.<\/p>\n
\u201cTwo hundred thousand households are unable to afford to heat their homes while four big power companies control over 85% of the market and rake in massive profits,” she said.<\/p>\n
“New Zealanders need a government willing to fix the real basics, and that\u2019s what the Greens are here to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
In total, the party’s package carried projected operating costs of $2.1 billion and capital costs of just over $1 billion through to the end of 2031.<\/p>\n
The party launched the plan at the Dunedin Gasworks Museum, where Swarbrick said gas “belongs in a museum” and criticised the Government’s support for an LNG terminal which she said would lock New Zealand into 15 more years of imported fossil fuels.<\/p>\n
\u201cKiwiPower will invest directly in new renewable generation and sort out our dry-year problem sensibly, without a billion-dollar LNG facility, and support new, independent players coming into the market,” she said.<\/p>\n
Just 3% of New Zealand homes have solar power, far behind Australia and the US (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n
Party co-leader Marama Davidson said the Greens plan would put ownership back in the hands of communities, with $80 million invested in renewable energy for M\u0101ori housing.<\/p>\n
“Our plan will put solar on more than half of all public homes within four years, and invest $80 million in renewable energy for M\u0101ori housing, because tangata whenua are two to three times more likely to face energy hardship,” Davidson said.<\/p>\n
She said the policy was about rangatiratanga over energy and reflected the party’s commitment to Te Tiriti o Waitangi.<\/p>\n
The party says it would be funded by repurposing the coalition’s gas security fund. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n
The Greens said the plan, which is costed at $980 million over four years for Kiwipower alone, would be paid for by making the super-rich and corporates pay more tax.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Greens have launched an election energy policy, promising to help cut power bills and establish Kiwipower, a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111794,1667,69543,687,111795,111,43,139,69,135],"class_list":["post-534563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-chloe-swarbrick","tag-energy","tag-green-party","tag-housing-and-infrastructure","tag-marama-davidson","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534563","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=534563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}