Our communities deserve 100% clean, renewable energy that is generated locally and empowers our community.

Tāmaki Makaurau, like the rest of the Aotearoa, is currently being powered by polluting fossil fuels that are damaging our climate, causing financial hardship, and affecting the health of our people.

Today, I am adding my name and joining 350 Tāmaki Makaurau in calling on you to end energy injustice and support our local communities by meeting these three demands by mid 2024:

1. Promote and support local renewable energy projects by creating an accessible and comprehensive online community power hub. This hub would enable access to essential skills and expertise, as well as support communities in setting up or looking to connect with existing projects.

2. Remove procedural barriers and streamline the process to setting up local renewable energy projects. Currently most of these projects fail due to long and complicated consenting requirements.

3. Be open and transparent about the use of renewable energy in Auckland. For example, what exactly is Auckland Council doing to provide support for community energy projects? How many have been set up?

In all of these we want you to support more community-controlled renewable energy as this gives people greater access to and ownership over their local energy systems and strengthen community ties.

We can’t keep powering our lives with polluting fuels from the last century, but together we can achieve homegrown energy by having the Auckland Council invest and kickstart the fast and just transition.