Submissions and press

AWATEA has developed a 3-year rolling Action Plan, which forms the basis for its activities.  The Action Plan is approved each year at the Annual General Meeting.  The current Action Plan is available for download here.

AWATEA welcomes feedback on the contents of the Action Plan at any time.

 

Submissions

Late 2006 - early 2007 was a busy period for submissions to Government on the draft Energy Strategy, Energy Efficiency and Conservation Strategy and a range of climate change documents.  AWATEA was involved in pre-release discussions with various Government agencies and has been involved in consultation meetings since that time.

AWATEA developed its submission by holding its first annual conference and canvassing the views of both conference registrants and members.  AWATEA has taken the views of respondents into account.  There were some differences in opinion over certain issues and time did not permit development of a consensus.  However, these differences of opinion are shown in the submission and the Executive is grateful to all of the respondents, who took the time and effort to make comments on the draft submission.

AWATEA’s submission to Government was forwarded to the Ministry of Economic Development and Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority on 30 March 2007 and can be downloaded here.

AWATEA’s submission on draft NZES and related documents

AWATEA also made a submission to the Australian Parliament on 15 June 2007. The House Standing Committee is conducting an inquiry into the renewable energy industry in Australia.  AWATEA made its own submission (see below) and worked with members BioPower Systems, Energy Pacifica and Oceanlinx so that they made independent submissions.

AWATEA’s submission to the Australian Parliament

On 7 November 2008 AWATEA made a submission to the Board of Inquiry on the proposed National Policy Statement for Renewable Electricity Generation.  The submission covered three areas with respect to marine energy:

1. ‘Reversibility’ of marine energy projects on decommissioning
2. Evidence to enable the removal of marine energy from the <4 MW threshold for projects, which is backed up by a report commissioned by EECA on the environmental impacts of marine energy converters
3. Comments on ‘fast-tracking’ permits for marine energy prototype deployments.
   

Submission to the Board of Inquiry on the proposed National Policy Statement for Renewable Electricity Generation Report on environmental impacts of marine energy converters

 

Press Releases

From time to time and at strategic opportunities, AWATEA has made press releases on relevant subjects.

The Executive would like to acknowledge the help of Mr. Brian Small at Busby Ramshaw and Grice, who have advised AWATEA on the form and content of these press releases.

16 December 2009
Expert panel named for marine energy fund

13 December 2009
Commercial support for NZ 'blue energy'

17 October 2007
Lively competition for marine energy funds predicted

13 March 2007
Marine renewable energy – co-operation is the key

11 December 2006
Marine Energy sets sail in the Draft Energy Strategy

8 September 2006
Bright Future For ‘Blue Energy’ Backgrounder on Marine Energy: 7 September 2006

26 June 2006
More work needed to harness sea’s power, says national
association