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    WHERE DOES THE ELECTRICITY COME FROM?

    Jun 20, 2022 3 minutes

    LETTER OF THE MONTH

    There are frequent announcements in the media about new technological advances and also lots of warnings about looking after our planet’s health. Many of the advances require electrical energy to make them function, and many of the warnings are about the urgent need to reduce our reliance on burning fossil fuels.

    We have quite a lot of renewable and non-polluting systems in New Zealand to generate electrical energy but we still burn a colossal amount of imported coal through Huntly and we have a finite

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