Our call for 100% Homegrown Energy

Palmerston North City Council

Sharepic with Windmills, green rolling hills, and 350 Te Pamutana Logo, It reads join our fight for homegrown energy

Our communities deserve 100% clean, renewable energy that is generated locally and empowers our community. Together we are pushing for our local politicians to invest in affordable clean energy, support energy sovereignty, and enable communities to be part of the solution by asking the Palmerston North City Council to:

Installing a series of solar banks across key council-owned buildings. We love that our council have a solar bank on the administration building. Now we’d like to see more homegrown energy generated on:

    • Lido Aquatic Centre

    • Palmerston North Airport

    • Palmerston North City Libraries

We are also calling on our city council to incentivise insulation and heat pump installation by providing funding and low interest loan options for homeowners and landlords who do not qualify for the Warmer Kiwi Homes subsidy, so that all members of our community can be lifted out of energy poverty

Palmerston North City Council has an opportunity to support us in our fight for accessible, homegrown energy and do their bit to help our communities and climate thrive.


To: Palmerston North City Council
From: [Your Name]

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

Te Pamutana, 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 Te Pamutana in asking that the council commit to the following by June 2023:

- Installing a series of solar banks across key council owned buildings. We love that you have a solar bank on the administration building. Now we’d like to see more solar on:
- Lido Aquatic Centre
- Palmerston North Airport
- Palmerston North City Libraries

- Incentivise insulation and heat pump installation by providing funding and low interest loan options for homeowners and landlords who do not qualify for the Warmer Kiwi Homes subsidy, so that all members of our community can be lifted out of energy poverty.

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