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John Harman: Director of solar company Lightforce suggests levelling playing field between gentailers and retailers before homes switch to solar · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Battle of these soular power policies happening at the moment
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  Speaker 1: between the two major parties.
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  Speaker 2: They've basically taken the work that rewiring Old I did.
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  Speaker 2: It's good work, and they've put the National Party's logo
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  Speaker 2: on it. Only the Labor Party is able to deliver
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  Speaker 2: the same policy but actually make it cost hundreds of
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  Speaker 2: millions of dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Right, let's cut to the tase. John Harmon, director of Lightful,
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  Speaker 1: solo with us this morning, Morning, John.
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  Speaker 2: Morning Ryan.
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  Speaker 1: Whose is better?
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  Speaker 2: Well, both of them are very similar. The Labor Party
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  Speaker 2: is just more and what we see in this in
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  Speaker 2: this space, which is more virtuous ignoring and more politicking.
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  Speaker 2: But it's not going to shift the dial for the
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  Speaker 2: average punter.
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  Speaker 1: What would because I mean they're talking about renters here,
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  Speaker 1: they're talking about subsidies here of up to three thousand
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  Speaker 1: dollars to get a couple of panels on your roof.
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  Speaker 1: What would move the dial for renters and for low
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  Speaker 1: income people? Middle income be able to actually go with solar.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it's very simple. It's a level playing field with
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  Speaker 2: the retailers of gentails and alliance companies. So they are
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  Speaker 2: making record profits from new Zealanders with high power prices
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  Speaker 2: and the government itself is making record profits from GST,
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  Speaker 2: from dividends and from basically corporate tax and that's not
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  Speaker 2: going to stop. So we want to level playing field
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  Speaker 2: for investors from the little kids, from the little punters
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  Speaker 2: that invest in two panels on their balcony, to the
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  Speaker 2: average household which really needs twenty panels to run a house.
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  Speaker 2: And that's symmetrical pricing. So whatever the gentailer charges you
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  Speaker 2: for your power rhyme. So let's say thirty six censor unit,
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  Speaker 2: well your panels shall get thirty six censor unit from
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  Speaker 2: them when you're not using the power, when you're exporting
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  Speaker 2: it to your neighbor. That would move the dial as
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  Speaker 2: we want fairness.
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  Speaker 1: More costly, mean you mentioned the Lines charges. Is it
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  Speaker 1: more costly to reverse it out?
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  Speaker 2: No, not at all. It's easy. It's like everywhere in
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  Speaker 2: the world has got more SOLO than New Zealand. It's
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  Speaker 2: just the Lines company don't facilitate it and the gen
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  Speaker 2: Taylors don't want it because they're making all the money.
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  Speaker 1: John Harmon, director of Lightful Solo. For more from early
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