Eco news and stories

Is Geothermal really renewable? Geothermal emissions are now higher than coal in the electricity sector!

Powered by solar and Ecotricity. Ecotricity love being the first choice for supply to a new home, and we’re lucky enough to be supplying to homes popping up across New Zealand every day.

Hot on the heels of the Netherlands banning petrol and diesel car sales by 2030 and Norway by 2025 and India committing to a 100% electric vehicle fleet by 2030. Germany has announced plans to also ban the sale of petrol and diesel cars by 2030.

Electric vehicles are about to dominate Europe with the announcement of Norway and the Netherlands banning the sale of petrol and diesel car sales by 2025 and 2030. Should NZ be following suit?

Congratulations to the team at Remax North Shore. They’ve made the switch to Ecotricity’s 100% Renewable carbonzero certified electricity and have started saving emissions from day one.

Electric Vehicles in New Zealand have just received the boost they needed to take charge of NZ’s transport fleet.  $20 million is being set aside per year by the government to accelerate the uptake of electric vehicles in New Zealand.

Hot on the announcement that India intends to move its transport fleet to 100% electric by 2030, the renewable energy sector in India registered impressive growth in the financial year ending March 31st, 2016.

The recent announcement of the electrification of the NZ Bus fleet is a massive boost for completing the electrification of New Zealand's public transport fleet.