by DavidSpratt | Nov 5, 2019 | ICT
Total Utilities is proud to have been nominated as a finalist in the 12th annual Microsoft New Zealand Partner Awards. These awards reveal the capability and influence that Microsoft Partners have in empowering customers to create real change and value.As a business...
by DavidSpratt | Oct 22, 2019 | Energy
Our national grid pricing needs solutions. And after 10 years of pondering its navel, the Electricity Authority (EA), the Government agency charged with ensuring an efficient and effective electricity industry, plans to release a paper that may or may not gain...
by RichardGardiner | Aug 21, 2019 | Energy
Most of us now agree that climate change is all too real and we therefore all need to do something about it, sooner rather than later. However, some impulsive political changes in the past 18 months, like unilaterally banning all new offshore oil and gas exploration,...
by DavidSpratt | Aug 14, 2019 | Energy
“A society grows great when people plant trees whose shade they know they will never lie in.” – Greek Proverb I spent the best part of Saturday planting trees, flaxes, and ferns along a stream bank with my son, Tom, and his best mate. The task was “wholesome”...
by chris | Aug 7, 2019 | Energy
New Zealand has set a target under the Paris Agreement to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 30% below 2005 levels by 2030, and to adopt increasingly more ambitious targets in the future. Per capita, New Zealand’s emissions are one of the highest in the...
by DavidSpratt | Jul 31, 2019 | Energy
I lit my first fire at home for the year on the unusual date of May 31, just one day before the official beginning of winter. I live in the sunny north side of Auckland, but I would have expected to see my dog sleeping in front of the fire by around late April. There...
