Stephen D

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Stephen D
Stephen D
We have set up an all-electric café and record shop called The Record Keeper powered from solar. Our heating comes from storage and infra-red and we spin vinyl records on our turntable powered by solar.

Congratulations on your Rewiring Aotearoa initiative. We have almost gone full circle with the work we did at Electricorp Marketing in the late 1980’s on gold medallion all-electric homes. The natural gas era was about to arrive. My work was on all-electric process heating and that is another story to write up because we were showing leadership in this all-electric approach in 1996. In fact, I have a complete set of Market Matters from the ECNZ days if you would like them for your library. I am pleased that I am not a lone voice any more in talking about all electric homes. I am now living in Geraldine in the South Island. We have set up an all-electric café and record shop called The Record Keeper powered from solarPV. Our heating comes from storage and infra-red. We spin vinyl records on our turntable powered by solarPV of course and talk to people about lowering carbon footprints compared to streaming music. We will soon be playing records made of eco-vinyl pressed in Auckland. My professional work is now taking me onto dairy farms and how a community can build more electricity resilience in our transition. We should be stressing the systems approach for our energy future. I am more than happy to keep in touch.