The Green Energy portfolio has been developed to focus on Tiwai certainty, decarbonisation and developing a green hydrogen energy future.
View of the Tiwai Aluminium Smelter from Stirling Point, Bluff.
The world’s energy system is changing. Burning fossil fuels to produce electricity, power vehicles and manufacture goods is driving climate change. Governments around the world, including New Zealand’s, have committed to reducing our reliance on fossil fuels. These changes are both a challenge and an opportunity.
Purpose
Ngāi Tahu ki Murihiku at the centre of large scale clean energy capability that protects te taiao and supports growth and well being for our region and country.
Hydrogen
Learn more about hydrogen as an energy carrier in the video below. What is the hype about? Where is current thinking at? Is it the ‘answer’ to replacing fossil fuels? What’s the difference between ‘grey’, ‘blue’ and ‘green hydrogen’? Find out the answers to these questions - and more…
Just Transition Clean Energy Workstream
As part of the Green Energy Portfolio, Murihiku Regeneration is leading the Just Transition Clean Energy Workstream.
A working group has been established to bring together interested regional and national partners, and input from Murihiku Hapū, to develop and support an approach which will help enable the transition away from fossil fuels.
A key output of this work will be identifying what projects, training, investments and policy changes will support Southland’s clean energy ambitions. The working group will also be responsible for identifying how local clean energy ambitions interact with the national energy system.
Murihiku Regeneration will report back to the EOG on the first stage of this work in August 2022. Following this report back, Murihiku Regeneration will work with project partners to identify how the region can realise these ambitions.
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