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Mike Casey likes to call himself an “electric cherry orchardist from New Zealand"... Casey argues that rooftop solar was the gateway that enabled him to electrify his entire orchard. “It’s so significantly cheaper than a litre of diesel that it would just make absolutely no sense to buy another diesel machine once you are taking advantage of your rooftop solar.”
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Read moreDownloadNational has announced what it’s calling ‘Electrify NZ 2.0’, a nine point plan to provide affordable power. And while it has a lot of stuff Rewiring has been asking for for a few years, there are a couple of big bits missing, says CEO Mike Casey.
