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Forest Lodge Orchard has taken out the Norwood Farming Efficiency Award and the NZFET Innovation Award at the Otago Farm Environment Awards. "Technology and sustainability are the hallmarks of this Cromwell orchard that has grown its harvest exponentially since being developed from bare ground in 2019 ... Right from the start, owners Mike and Rebecca Casey, and Euan and Rachel White have been striving to electrify all orchard methods and equipment – a goal they have achieved. They have an electric tractor, have electrified the orchard’s irrigation pump, installed New Zealand’s first electric frost–fighting fans and are developing an electric foliage sprayer. In 2022, they set themselves a challenge of going completely fossil-fuel-free in the orchard. This will potentially save about $50k per year in energy bills and continues to drive greater creativity in finding or developing alternative approaches."
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Read moreDownloadSetting a higher default 10kW export limit for customers with small scale distributed generation such as roof top solar and batteries will remove unnecessary restrictions on the power customers can send back to the grid, supporting uptake of solar and batteries and create significant benefits for all electricity customers providing lower cost, more secure and resilient electricity supply.
Read moreDownloadSchools, farmers, marae and small businesses in our communities should not be excluded from a fair deal on payments for solar power they export back to the network at peak times. That could happen if the Electricity Authority follows through on its plan to impose limits on connection sizes of who they protect with fair export pricing. We believe the limits are far too low and will exclude energy customers who deserve better. Investment in local generation and batteries incentivised by fair peak payments will benefit the whole community by helping to lower electricity bills and providing greater local resilience. Without fair payments for providing peak power, the whole community misses out. We want you to let them know it’s not on.
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