A powerful coalition of business and consumer organisations has issued a public plea to Prime Minister Christopher Luxon to overhaul New Zealand’s “broken” energy sector.
In an open letter published in newspapers today under the headline “Our energy market is broken”, the signatories—including the Auckland Chamber of Commerce, Consumer NZ, and four independent power retailers—warned that the country is running out of gas, energy prices are skyrocketing, and delays in new electricity generation are hurting both families and businesses.
“Our dysfunctional electricity market is holding back New Zealand’s productivity, restricting our international competitiveness, and driving up the cost of living,” the letter stated, calling for urgent reforms to unlock renewable investment and protect consumers.
Energy Minister Simon Watts acknowledged the concerns, conceding that “our electricity market is not functioning as well as it should.” He attributed the current pressures to a dry 2024 winter, declining wind power, and faster-than-expected drops in gas production.
While pointing to an ongoing market review launched last year after a winter “power crisis,” Watts assured the public that the Government would make announcements on reforms “in due course.”
The letter’s authors urged decisive action: “Level the playing field. Put protections in place for consumers and businesses alike… Use this once-in-a-generation opportunity to reshape our energy market.”
He doesn’t know how to fix anything…so why even waste one’s time trying to get him or his party to do anything…?
NZ Loyal Party is waiting in the wings in 2026..!
He’s in on the fix and that’s about all.
Why don’t we harness more hydro energy? For goodness sake we have rivers and water up the wazoo. This stupid drive to have ev cars and subsidise everyone into heatpumps just exacerbates the situation.
The NZ Loyal Party doesn’t exist any more. I feel NZ First will take the stage at the next election as ALL OTHER PARTIES have proven themselves USELESS!!!
NZ Loyal does exist, and Kelvyn Alp is the leader of the party.
office@nzloyal.com
https://nzloyal.com/
Do your homework…
My apologies. I didn’t know that name could be reused as I understood it to belong to Liz Gunn.
Touche
Luxon needs to be back in the country to start fixing things!
Here’s some incentive for getting things done – tell him he and National will be ousted at the next election!
Mandate kiwisaver fund mangers to buy it back.
We can thank John Key for the shit state of our Electricity. This makes me laugh – “a dry 2024 winter, declining wind power, ” ……But those hideous wind turbine farms – that last 25 years tops and have no options for recycling in NZ….were supposed to be the answer to everything….Renewable energy was their war cry……
Go solar they say – in the next breath we are going to geoengineer to dim the sun…!!!.. If you havent realised its all a friggin money grabbing scam….well then you may just have rocks in your head.
I’d be amazed if he could fix a light bulb, quite frankly.
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The “By Design” Broken Energy Market.
Technocracy is a system built entirely around control—of energy, resources, information, and ultimately you. Patrick Wood, who’s spent decades studying this shift, explains that technocracy started in the 1930s as a scientific, data-driven economic model that rejects private property and individual freedom. It’s evolved, changed names, and today it hides behind phrases like “sustainable development,” “Agenda 2030,” and “smart cities.” But the goal remains: central control of everything.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT2nO3aTh3I&list=TLPQMTMwNzIwMjVayVVH-y8duQ&index=5
Technocracy the Movie: The Agenda: Their Vision – Your Future
https://www.technocracy.news/
Good luck with that people. Might as well wish for world Peace.
Don’t blame governments you the the dumb arse people are the problem always have been ,how many times have you voted these cretins labour and National into power grow a brain or you will suffer more pain.
If you want growth and foot it with the rest of the world Luxon you need cheap energy. While contemplating building hydro or nuclear, start building coal fired energy plants. Our country is rich in coal reserves. The pursuit of net zero nonsense is holding our country back.
Thankfully I’ve never voted for either or any of the globalist minnows with any consistency once I knew what they were but you are DEAD right, complacent, delusional voters ARE the issue.
They would never eat twice at a bad restaurant but they are happy to keep voting for parties that let them down over and over, again.