{"id":596672,"date":"2026-09-11T02:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T02:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/596672\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T02:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T02:26:11","slug":"renewable-energy-hits-record-high-but-ditching-coal-gas-still-off-the-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/596672\/","title":{"rendered":"Renewable energy hits record high but ditching coal, gas still off the table"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Renewables have hit a record high, but the Associate Energy Minister says New Zealand still can&#8217;t quit coal and gas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A new MBIE report shows renewables supplied 92% of electricity in the June quarter, with record geothermal generation and solar up 56%.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wholesale electricity prices also fell 66% compared with the same quarter last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Shane Jones told Mike Hosking New Zealand needs coal and gas because there&#8217;s not enough water in lakes or battery storage to guarantee supply.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s tired of people who think you can have these green accoutrements without a backup and won&#8217;t support a model where New Zealand imports everything from overseas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>LISTEN ABOVE \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Renewables have hit a record high, but the Associate Energy Minister says New Zealand still can&#8217;t quit coal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[198407,4888,1667,273,16460,111,139,69,203039,294130,42959,147,120040],"class_list":["post-596672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-associateenergyminister","tag-coal","tag-energy","tag-environment","tag-gas","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-renewableenergy","tag-renewablegeneration","tag-renewables","tag-science","tag-shanejones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596672","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=596672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}