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Renewable Energy Investment

58 items · 30 aliases · peaked week of 24 May 2026 · first seen 28 Apr 2026

The piece critiques New Zealand’s inadequate preparedness for economic shocks, drawing on historical lessons from the 1979 oil crisis and current supply chain vulnerabilities, while calling for stronger investment in energy resilience, economic planning, and policy foresight.

Stance breakdown Methodology →

How the framings classify across 12 articles. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.

83%
17%
Supportive 10 Critical 2

Volume by source orientation Methodology →

Stacked weekly counts; colour by lean. “n/a” covers government and iwi-Māori sources where lean isn't applicable.

Alias drift

How this topic has been named, week by week. A new alias winning out is usually a framing shift.

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In the press Methodology →

How the news corpus has covered this same topic over the last 12 weeks. 12 articles from RNZ, Stuff, NZ Herald, ODT, 1News, Newsroom and The Spinoff. Click through to the press view for the full panel.

12-week press volume 12 articles
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Heard on radio

Verbatim segments from politicians speaking on podcasts and radio shows about this topic. Sourced via the voice-reference library — each speaker has been confirmed manually from their voice clip. Click play to stream the original audio from the publisher, pre-seeked to the moment the quote starts.

  • Absolutely. Uh, I don't know if you've looked into this, but there was some interesting research that uh came out over the uh course of um of this day uh from uh Sapere, and it was we were talking about it this morning, and that they say that installing wind farms and solar panels and batteries, along with occasionally burning diesel to power lights and heaters in dry winters, would in fact be cheaper and better than the government's plan to import LNG. So that sort of uh marries with what you've found with your research, doesn't it?
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Sample framings

Up to 12 framings spread across orientations. Each framing is a short phrase the topic extractor generated to characterise the piece's stance — not a quote from the source. Click through to read the original.

pundit Centre

a neglected path to long-term energy security

Responding to the Economic Shocks from the Iran War
27 Mar
greenpeace-nz Centre-left

urgent and transformative for households

Budget 2026: where are the solutions to climate, biodiversity and fuel crises?
28 May
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How the public reacted

Social-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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