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Mike Casey: Rewiring Aotearoa CEO on the Ministry of Regulation wanting to cut red tape for solar · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: So we've all been looking for alternatives for power, and
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  Speaker 1: we want to make power cheaper, and here we go.
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  Speaker 1: The Ministry of Regulation wants to make solar cheaper and
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  Speaker 1: easier to install. So it's back changes to allow plug
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  Speaker 1: in solar and let a credited installers sign off jobs
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  Speaker 1: without an inspection. Approvals could drop from three months to
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  Speaker 1: just six days, and this could cut the costs by
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  Speaker 1: around six hundred and forty dollars down to two hundred bucks.
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  Speaker 1: Mike Casey is the CEO of Rewiring Artira, and you'll
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  Speaker 1: be a happy man to hear a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: common sense, wouldn't you? Mike?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Andrew, I was over the moon yesterday. We've been
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  Speaker 2: anticipating this report for quite some time. It came out
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  Speaker 2: and it basically, yeah, accepted a lot of the recommendations
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  Speaker 2: we were hoping to get in to just make things
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  Speaker 2: way more affregiant and lower costs. Is Yonders so thrilled.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I've only just come to town to plug in solar.
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  Speaker 1: It was illegal? Why was it illegal? And I know
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  Speaker 1: the safety concerns and what are the safety concerns? And
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  Speaker 1: should we worry about that?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's essentially a while back now I think it
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  Speaker 2: was twenty twelve it was made illegal and that was
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  Speaker 2: because the technology at the time simply wasn't really that safe.
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  Speaker 2: But technology has come a long way now. We now
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  Speaker 2: have the Germans that have instilled five hundred the sorry
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  Speaker 2: five million of these systems. The technology has moved on
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  Speaker 2: and it has become a lot safer. The primary concern
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  Speaker 2: really was that it would feedback power into the grid
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  Speaker 2: when there was a power cut, which could cause all
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  Speaker 2: sorts of issues for lines been working on lines who
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  Speaker 2: thought they would be you know, they wouldn't be live anymore.
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  Speaker 2: But that technology has been improved to the point now
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  Speaker 2: where these things just attack them there's a power cut
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  Speaker 2: and switch themselves off.
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  Speaker 1: Very good ad do if you buy a plugin system,
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  Speaker 1: because I know that renters like to buy plug in
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  Speaker 1: systems and then landlords freak out because what are the
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  Speaker 1: renters doing to my power supply? But when you buy
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  Speaker 1: a plugin system, can you install it yourself or you
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  Speaker 1: still have to get an installer.
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  Speaker 2: No, you can literally just plug it into a tenamp
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  Speaker 2: socket a normal wall soccer in your home and it
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  Speaker 2: starts pushing power back into your home and those electrons
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  Speaker 2: are then used by your fridge and your freezer in
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  Speaker 2: your hot water system brings down your power bill by
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  Speaker 2: about seven to fifteen percent, and we've seen examples of
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  Speaker 2: those that are really hot on wanting to save money
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  Speaker 2: they can get that up to about thirty percent. So
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  Speaker 2: it's pretty remarkable and a great opportunity. Are the great
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  Speaker 2: thing for the renters. They can pick it up and
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  Speaker 2: take it with them when they move.
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  Speaker 1: Home, and good for the nation because we want to
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  Speaker 1: save as much electricity as we want it. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: and by the way, how much do one of these
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  Speaker 1: plug and soul of things cost?
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  Speaker 2: Not sure exactly what it's on a land in New
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  Speaker 2: Zealand at the moment, but what we've seen in Europe,
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  Speaker 2: if you just translate those prices over, it's anywhere between
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  Speaker 2: a few one hundred bucks to probably fifteen hundred bucks. Wow,
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  Speaker 2: And that is just one panel to two panels. They
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  Speaker 2: come with mounting systems so they can go on milk
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  Speaker 2: and ease different ratings on the panel and so on
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  Speaker 2: and so forth. But yeah, it's a really easy price
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  Speaker 2: point because you're probably spending ten to twenty thousand dollars
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  Speaker 2: to stick something on your roof. You still get the
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  Speaker 2: solar rapp and many many cases there'll be new Zealanders
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  Speaker 2: that might own their own homes that will buy one
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  Speaker 2: for the first time, realize that it works, and they
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  Speaker 2: might invest in a bigger, more formal system. And we
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  Speaker 2: must rest at the ROI on a proper system on
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  Speaker 2: your rooftop is greater than rooftop solar, but at the
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  Speaker 2: same time that your price point is so much more
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  Speaker 2: expensively done.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly right. And it's the renders, It's absolutely right.
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  Speaker 1: There's the renters who are really going to appeal to it,
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  Speaker 1: and people like me who go, oh yeah, fifteen hundred
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  Speaker 1: bucks would be a bit of fun. And I thank
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  Speaker 1: you so much, Mike, and thank heavens. And now we
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  Speaker 1: just ask for some speed to make sure this is
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  Speaker 1: all in place as quickly as possible.
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