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1 month ago | 
lexology.com | Holly Hill |Bianca Tree |Stephanie de Groot |Amanda Spratt |David Gilbert |Karyn Kenealy
The Government’s ‘Going for Growth’ programme needs infrastructure projects to proceed at an accelerated pace. The Government has publicly stated that infrastructure projects are currently delayed, citing complex and drawn-out processes for acquiring the necessary land as a key barrier. Over the past month, Hon Chris Penk, the Minister for Land Information New Zealand, has announced a number of changes to (but not a full overhaul of) the Public Works Act 1981.
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2 months ago | 
lexology.com | Natasha Hood |Sarah Sinclair |Scott Thompson |John Conlan |Stephanie de Groot |Paul Foley | +4 more
At the end of 2024, Transpower, along with Northland’s electricity distribution businesses Northpower and Top Energy, released their Resilience, Reliability and an Energy Bridge – Te Tai Tokerau Northland discussion paper. This paper followed the June 2024 Northland tower collapse which cut electricity to 88,000 people and caused a financial loss of more than $37.5 million.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Natasha Hood |Sarah Sinclair |Scott Thompson |John Conlan |Stephanie de Groot |Paul Foley | +4 more
The Electricity Authority (EA) released a decision paper in July on potential solutions for the peak electricity capacity issues. It has decided to pursue a package of six solutions which will support its long-term view of security of supply. In the following paragraphs we summarise the EA’s outlook across the short, medium, and long-term horizons.
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May 27, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Natasha Hood |Sarah Sinclair |Scott Thompson |John Conlan |Stephanie de Groot |Paul Foley | +3 more
This month saw “electricity crisis” headlines proliferate with an unseasonal cold snap and low wind generation causing Transpower to release a warning notice and ask New Zealanders to reduce power use. After a long period of no growth, reports this month also suggest electricity demand in New Zealand is increasing.
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May 13, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Natasha Hood |John Conlan |Scott Thompson |Sarah Sinclair |Stephanie de Groot |Paul Foley | +3 more
In recent years, it has become common for utility-scale solar projects in Australia to include a grid-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) to provide energy generated by the solar farm to the grid outside of the times when the sun is shining.
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Natasha Hood |Sarah Sinclair |Scott Thompson |John Conlan |Stephanie de Groot |Paul Foley | +4 more
Aotearoa New Zealand is in the midst of a solar revolution, with solar farm developments contributing to over half of the new renewable energy projects in the country. Large-scale solar developments are a relatively new development in New Zealand, and we can look to earlier adopters of solar (whether rooftop or utility-scale) for lessons on how to deal with long-term issues that can arise with this technology.
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Mar 25, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Natasha Hood |Scott Thompson |Sarah Sinclair |John Conlan |Stephanie de Groot |Paul Foley | +4 more
Recent reports that the Government will review the oil and gas decommissioning regime imposed under the Crown Minerals (Decommissioning and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2021 begs the question whether the process of decommissioning a renewable energy project in New Zealand should be under more scrutiny.
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Feb 6, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Sarah Sinclair |Scott Thompson |John Conlan |Stephanie de Groot |Paul Foley |Lisa M. Curran | +4 more
Last week the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) released its . The publication of the briefings provided to incoming Ministers by officials provides a useful glimpse behind the scenes in Government. In particular, the briefing for the Minister for Energy, the Hon Simeon Brown, raises a number of strategic choices the Government must make to shape the energy sector for both the short-term and beyond the current governmental cycle.
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Jul 27, 2023 | 
lexology.com | Stephanie de Groot
Offshore energy has the potential to fill some of Aotearoa New Zealand’s renewable energy gaps – and there is growing interest from the Government and developers in exploring the possibility. However, existing environmental legislation is not fit for purpose. The Government has recognised the existing environmental legislation is not fit for purpose and is proposing a new regime to remove barriers and stimulate investment.
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Apr 19, 2023 | 
neprofarm.nl | Stephanie de Groot
In 2022 ging de samenleving na corona langzaam weer terug naar normaal. Het overheidsbeleid ten aanzien van Covid-19 werd gewijzigd. Zelftesten en zelfzorgadvies werden daarbij het uitgangspunt. Met dit zelfzorgbeleid krijgen mensen meer inzicht in hun gezondheidssituatie, nemen zelf de juiste maatregelen en doen geen onnodig beroep op de zorg. Zou dit zelfzorgbeleid ten aanzien van Covid-19 ook niet doorvertaald moeten worden naar eenvoudige gezondheidsklachten in het algemeen?
