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Thursday's Chorus: Where's the solar plan?
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Briefly for all today in Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, poverty and climate:
* The Lead: The Government’s electricity reforms yesterday focused on a vague, expensive and slow construction of an LNG port facility. But why didn’t it look at a fast and big rollout of grid-scale solar panels and electric battery parks? Especially given the one Meridian has built at Ruakaka in Northland has already suppressed wholesale price inflation.
* The Sidebar: ANZ fired back at BNZ last night to match its…
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