🤑Cost is now the biggest issue for energy in NZ. 😎More solar and more data on Solar Streets. 🔥Reality is catching up with Aussie gas users. ✅Climate comms lessons. 🥂Electric events FTW. 🎾And Tom Sainsbury gets dirty for Uber Electric. https://t.co/QU3f2undHJ

↔️The future is going to go both ways. If you're in Queenstown and want to be part of the country's biggest V2G trial, fill in your details and the QEA team will be in touch to assess your suitability.⚡ https://t.co/1oIO7cbOXx ‍

Around 70% of car travel in New Zealand is in trips over 10km that are typically difficult to switch to other travel modes. If you can, use your legs, or hop on a train or bus. If you still need a car, make it electric. https://t.co/5Xf09kmz1w

The environment or the economy? Pick one? With solar, you can pick both. Solar is something that those of different political persuasions seem to be able to agree on. See why it makes sense in our explainer https://t.co/onpxiN2lIU

How much are you paying for your energy subscriptions? The average home can save around $4,000 per year - including interest on a loan to pay for the higher upfront costs of these electric machines. Check out the calculator to see what you could save. https://t.co/wyPDfOajeB

"It's new technology, but it's friendly technology. I encourage them to not be afraid of it." That's what Jack Gerrard tells his fellow drivers when talking about Waste Management NZ's electric rubbish trucks. And, once they get behind the wheel, they're quickly converted.

We've been taking the electric message to the streets of New Zealand over the past few months as part of the Kill Bills tour and the national roadie will wrap up this week with our last two stops in Tauranga on Tuesday night and Hamilton on Wednesday. https://t.co/B2qD8YbsI9

We love a bit of renewable hydro power in New Zealand, but Ray Tomlinson from JT Group has brought a new meaning to that phrase with what he calls "probably the first battery electric operated commercial water blaster". https://t.co/WPPfgxYTF3

Good news for fans of fairness. The Electricity Authority has extended the deadline for its consultation on which customers can access peak exports until 9am Monday morning. Check out our submission guide and let's make New Zealand more electric. https://t.co/4TlirCBMRQ

🔋The latest battery technology (and the latest battery submission). 📉The innovator's dilemma came for Nokia, and now it's coming for petrol cars and fossil fuels. 🧠Basis and Octopus join forces. 🚴‍♂️Sweet 'electricks' ⚡🍵 Kirin's 'electric salt'. https://t.co/Zo3ZsIvcbN

You may have heard about the world's first electric cherry orchard near Cromwell, where 21 electric machines and lots and solar and batteries are doing the business. But plenty of other businesses are following suit.

If we want lower bills, stronger communities and more local generation, we need to speak up and make sure the Electricity Authority changes its proposed limits on who can access peak export rates. See our submission guide here 🔗 https://t.co/4TlirCBMRQ

We've put another check mark on the EDB scoreboard after adding Powerco's data to our Solar Streets map. And another 13,800 little yellow dots make it look a lot better. Check out our submission guideline for export limits here and let's #upthekilowahs! https://t.co/qGih5BAYUn

"It's like jamming a finger in the dike to hold back the flood." That's how energy commentator Larry Blair described the Government's decision to back Liquified Natural Gas in Kirsty Johnston's excellent piece on the recent energy reforms. https://t.co/RefJllbbOi.

Neighbours, everybody needs good neighbours. Australia has shown that millions of homes generating cheap energy through rooftop solar can benefit everyone and lots of household batteries will make the energy system much more resilient.

The rent is too damn high! And the big energy landlords are likely to keep putting up that rent. But there is one guaranteed way to reduce it and it's to invest in your own energy.

Whether big or small, it makes sense to go electric when you're building new and Parakiore, Australasia's biggest indoor sports facility and swimming complex, is a great example of that.

⚡The IEA's 'age of electricity'. 0️⃣Zero bills homes is not pie in the sky thinking. It's economics. 🚗EV adoption numbers. 🔌No substitute for charging experience. 💼Home charging for biz. 🧑‍✈️Air NZ's electric plane starts testing. https://t.co/sVHgfisy3W⚡

For Toni Glover from Kinloch Wilderness Retreat, it made more financial sense to put a 2018 Tesla Model X on the mortgage than continue to run their petrol hybrid. See what you could save and what you need to consider here 🚗⚡ https://t.co/IhMRvsOGGL

The big stuff is going electric too. As Mike Casey discovered at the Electrify the Hutt expo, Hutt City Council and Waste Management NZ - two organisations leading the charge on electrification - have invested in a 20 tonne electric loader for the Silverstream facility.