New Zealand is indeed well supplied with renewable electricity. In recent years, New Zealand has averaged 83 per cent from renewable sources (including 60 per cent hydropower, 17 per cent geothermal, and 5 per cent wind) and 17per cent from fossil fuels (4 per cent coal and 13 per cent gas).
Posted on - 2020-04-21Commuters could one day be hitching a ride from the Wellington CBD to the airport by electric ferry.
East By West ferries plans to introduce an electric ferry on the Days Bay route later this year.
In a proposal to the government's infrastructure fund, the company has asked for money to develop the Miramar Peninsula and introduce two new electric ferries.
Posted on - 2020-04-21The number of people with Covid-19 in the Pacific continues to climb with French Polynesia hitting 40 cases, Guam now over 90 and the US state of Hawai'i suffering its third coronavirus death.
In the last day, another person tested positive for Covid-19 in French Polynesia.
However the number of carriers in hospital was unchanged at one.
In the US territory of Guam six positive tests have taken the number of cases there to 93.
Four people have died there, two confirmed this weekend.
Posted on - 2020-04-04