New Zealand households are still receiving new gas connections as natural gas supplies dwindle, sparking concern from energy advocates about the long-term sustainability and cost implications of relying on fossil fuels for home heating and cooking.
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Ultimately, they can only earn and receive the funding that uh or the or the revenue that comes from what they can sell power for. And so we're seeing reduction in that forward price. That means uh, and that's an $800 million per year reduction in the cost of energy to the New Zealand economy. Uh the whole point of this is to take that risk premium off people, off businesses, make our energy more affordable uh by dealing with the security supply issue. And the challenge here, and the challenge the challenge we've got here, uh Andrew, is that uh we have dwindling gas supplies, not helped by the previous government having uh banned oil and gas exploration, but we have dwindling gas supplies, and when we have a dry year, the power companies at the moment are taking either taking gas from industrial users or uh the price goes up significantly for other companies. But that is a cost which is borne by the economy and risks thousands of jobs. So we're setting we're saying we're telling we're you've said that a lot, and I we understand that.
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a troubling and puzzling decline in energy availability
The mystery of the disappearing gas reservessharp drop in domestic reserves due to overestimation and usage
\\ \\ **New gas data supports action to keep lights on**\\ \\ 14 May, 2026\\ \\ Simeon BrownSocial-media signal on the same topic, drawn from the social lens. Engagement is likes + 2×shares + 3×replies, the same weighting used across the digest cards. View on /social →
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