Business New Zealand congratulates the Government on releasing its Emissions Reduction Plan (ERP) and detailing its Climate Emergency Response Fund today.

The BusinessNZ Energy Council welcomes two new Co-Chairs of the Young Energy Professionals Network.

The BusinessNZ Energy Council welcomes two new Co-Chairs of the Young Energy Professionals Network (YEPN).

Explaining energy doesn’t have to be complicated. Introducing Energy 101 – a new series from BEC designed to help everyone understand NZ’s energy system. In today’s lesion you’ll meet Helios Energy’s Sarah Tapp, for an intro to solar power and its potential to further diversify renewable energy here.

Join us online to hear from Paul Gleeson, Group Director Sustainability and Managing Director Energy, Aurecon and Felicity Underhill, Director East Australia and New Zealand, Fortescue Future Industries to learn about how your business can manage climate change transition risk. Climate change transition is not about a shortage of options, it is more about making the right strategic choices. How do you wade through the complexity and create clear storylines and strategies that help business leaders and boards understand what choices they have, and what direction they can travel in so they can move with confidence? Through a risk management strategy perspective, you can ensure your business doesn’t end up with stranded assets and operations and business models that have become obsolete. Careful navigation will enable the harnessing of opportunities provided by a low-carbon economy that is not only good for your business but is also the right thing to do for people and for our planet. This session will be facilitated by Tom Walmsley, Aurecon’s New Zealand Advisory Leader. A link to join the webinar will be sent out to those registered prior to the event.

The World Energy Council has released the results from its April World Energy Pulse.

At the is event we had Meridian Energy and Contact Energy sharing their vision and feasibility study to develop a green hydrogen plant in New Zealand. A vision to develop a market leading, export focused green hydrogen plant which will ultimately support the development and decarbonisation of both the domestic and overseas economies and help New Zealand’s transition to a 100 per cent renewable electricity generation system. While the hydrogen production is not economic currently, various factors could align in New Zealand and around the world to make it so.

The BusinessNZ Energy Council (BEC) says it’s encouraging to see long-term infrastructure planning from the Government, and agrees that more of the same simply won’t cut it.

The BusinessNZ Energy Council (BEC) congratulates New Zealand’s successful appointees to the World Energy Council (WEC) future energy leaders’ programme ( FEL-100).

To meet the growing demand for renewable energy and to help reduce emissions from energy use, we need more energy that users can be confident is from renewable sources.