The Machine Count

We're on a mission to help New Zealand become the world's most electric economy, so Kiwis can spend less on imported fossil fuels, and use more low cost locally generated electricity running through more productive electric machines. We're doing this by surveying Kiwi homes and businesses about how they use energy.
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What's the machine count?

Rewiring Aotearoa’s previous work has identified a massive electrification opportunity for New Zealand, where households could save thousands per year and the country could save over $10 billion per year if we swap fossil fuel machines for electric equivalents in our households.

But we want to understand more about the electrification opportunity on different business types and farm types so we can provide a pathway for each of them to lower their energy bills and emissions. This requires understanding the machines they use.

To do this, we are undertaking a National Machine Count. This involves combining existing data with new survey data on what machines are used in homes, businesses, and farms from all over New Zealand.

This work is supported
and co-funded by Ara Ake.
www.araake.co.nz

How you can help

Fill out one of our surveys to help us better understand how you or your business uses energy. Your input will be a core part of our study on how New Zealanders can save on bills and emissions. We want to make sure that you and your community is represented in our results, which will be made publicly available (and anonymised for privacy).

Home Energy Survey

This survey is for homes and the vehicles they use, to understand how they could save money by replacing gas appliances and petrol/diesel vehicles with electric alternatives.

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Farm Energy Survey

This survey is for farms of all types, to understand the different electrification energy opportunities on farm, like powering irrigation with solar to save thousands on bills.

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Businesses & Institutions

This survey is for businesses, like cafes, hotels, manufacturing facilities, and for institutions like schools and councils. It will help us understand how you use energy and how you could save money with electrification.

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Win one of three prizes!

Fill out our Business & Institutions survey before 11:59pm Sunday 24th November to get in the prize draw.‍

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Everyone who completes the survey and submits their email address will go in the draw to win one of three prizes: 

1) A Kinloch Wilderness retreat stay, including:
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- Two nights for two people in an EcoScape, including breakfast. 
- Use of an electric Sinch bike or UBCO electric motorcycle for two days.
- Three course dinner for two at the Fernery restaurant. 
- Electric bus transfer from Queenstown to Kinloch with Nomad Safaris.

Kinloch Wilderness Retreat is ‘an hour and a million miles from Queenstown’ and it has already gone a long way down the electrification road. Owner Toni Glover is keen to see more New Zealand businesses follow suit - whether for the cost savings, the emissions reductions or the increased resilience - and the lodge has offered up an amazing incentive worth over $2000 to help get more responses to our new business and institutions energy survey. 

2) One 7 kWh AC EV charger valued at $1,100 that has been generously donated by Panasonic New Zealand.‍

Whether you're looking to install it at your business premises for staff or visitors, or outside for public use, EV chargers put your location on the map, attract foot traffic and make zero-emissions travel easy in your local neighbourhood.

With the option of single or 3-phase installation, it's a perfect fit for both residential and commercial use. Installation and mount stand not included.

3) Five boxes of Electric Cherries from Forest Lodge Orchard delivered to your door.

Check out the giveaway terms and conditions here.

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What's in it for...

The Average Kiwi?

Calculators and online resources to help kiwis understand how they could save thousands on energy bills, and reduce their emissions at the same time

Farms and Businesses?

Identify their own electrification opportunities to save money and emissions for machines large and small and builds plans of where to focus first.

Local Government?

Understand your regional electrification opportunity, like the National Opportunity, and plan how to help your community reduce emissions while saving money.

Central Government?

Data-informed policies that can provide a much more detailed, supportive pathway to electrification for every kind of fossil fuel machine in the economy.

Our global emissions problem is primarily an energy problem.

Around 73% of global emissions come from energy.

Solving that energy problem in practice is a machine problem.

Underneath all of our energy emissions categories sit fossil fuel machines, from coal power plants to petrol vehicles and gas water heaters. We need to swap those fossil fuel machines for zero emission electrified alternatives.

Conventional thinking has under-appreciated the role of the many  "demand-side" machines.

There are millions more machines that sit on the demand side of the energy system, like our cars, trucks, tractors, space heaters and more.

New Zealand's emissions are unique, but the solution to rapid emissions reduction is the same.

Climate change is a cumulative emissions problem, meaning the more we can reduce now the more impact we can have. We don't have electric planes yet, or zero emissions shipping, or zero emission cows... Yet we do have many of the electric machines in homes, businesses, and on farm that can replace fossil fuel machines while delivering more energy productivity and bill savings.

The good news is electric machines are significantly more efficient, and can save on energy bills.

As we've shown in Electric Homes, Investing in Tomorrow, and Electric Farms, electrification can save money and emissions at the same time. We love a win-win.

Join us in our mission towards a cleaner, more efficient future.

By taking just a few minutes to complete one (or all!) of our surveys, you can help us create independent public tools & resources to help you understand how we can save money and reduce emissions across homes, farms, and businesses. Every response counts in our mission to make Aotearoa the world's leading electric economy

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Your donations help our team keep the momentum of rapidly electrifying Aotearoa New Zealand within our key focus areas of community, government and industry.

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