Sustainable Taranaki
Address: New Plymouth Contact phone: Contact email: info@sustainabletaranaki.org.nz Website: https://www.sustainabletaranaki.org.nz/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SustainableTaranaki/ Sustainable Taranaki Works To Inspire And Support People, Businesses And Communities To Value The Environment And Act To Prioritise Sustainability. Being a community-based organization working with and supporting our communities: Empowering people through education and advocacy. Providing advice and support in an accessible and […]
Potential Architecture
Address: New Plymouth Contact phone: 020 40 222 609 Contact email: catherine@potentialarchitecture.co.nz Website: https://www.potentialarchitecture.co.nz/ Our Mission is for our houses to be high performance, beautiful, inspiring, energy efficient, and sustainable buildings for healthy living. We recognize that there are many subjective points of view. We are all different and diverse, with different needs. This means we take […]
Our Response to Covid-19
Community Energy Network (CEN) supports the Government in its tough new policies and a large financial support package released in the wake of COVID-19. We applaud the people-first approach while recognising that we will all need to be open to change and lean into innovative approaches to provide solutions for our communities in the coming […]
A Fresh Energy Hardship Framework
CEN Introduction What do we need to do to eliminate energy hardship in Aotearoa/New Zealand? The framework discussion below is the second blog of two written by Ian McChesney. It neatly highlights the key areas for discussion and emphasises the need to improve the way we develop consensus on complex issues that deeply impact the […]
Redefining how we measure energy hardship
This ‘10% threshold’ discussion below has been written by Ian McChesney. Ian is deeply experienced in the community energy sector, having co-founded CEN member CEA in 1994. He was CEA’s representative on the forerunner to CEN (EECN – Energy Efficiency Community Network) and has recently worked with CEN on their response to the Healthy Homes […]
Energy Democracy
Energy democracy is the idea that New Zealand can shift from a centralised, top-down provision of energy to one that prioritises deep engagement and local decision-making for communities to literally “own” their energy network. The reason this is so important is not only because it helps to give a resilient supply of electricity, but it […]
Energy Hardship
People living in energy hardship live in homes that perform so poorly that the cost of keeping the home warm and dry (and have hot water when they need it) is too high. Lining up with the dynamics of economic poverty, energy hardship comes from having a home that is hard to heat and keep […]
North Power
Response to Healthy Homes #1
The Healthy Housing Standards (HHS) for rental properties have just been released. Firstly, congratulations to the Government on pushing the standards up by a reasonable margin. This has improved the conversations we are having about the quality of our homes. This is a marked improvement on efforts from previous Governments. Before we get into a […]
Together we have helped over: 120,000 Houses in New Zealand have better living conditions.
We have been able to do this with the support and guidance of our members. If you need help with your home please find a member close to you.