Nicola Willis
speaker
1,507 appearances
29 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 4d ago
Nicola Willis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The key thing for getting power prices down sustainably in the medium term is more electricity generation.
And under our government, we are getting on with that.
We have consented
double the amount of new renewable energy than the last government achieved over its two terms in office.
So we are attacking that problem.
Well, you are right that wholesale prices are starting to come down as a consequence of the government's policy settings.
What we then want to see is those wholesale price reductions being passed on to customers.
Some positive signs there.
Meridian have said that they are intending to reduce prices for their commercial customers.
And what we expect to see is that as that generation actually comes on, at the moment it's consented, it's being built, that that price reduction will be priced on to retail customers.
You have to ask yourself, what is the alternative?
And our view as a government has been actually what we need to do is build at pace, have those solar farms getting up, have those
Wind farms getting up.
That's why we're fast tracking those projects at pace.
We need more generation in New Zealand so that energy is affordable.
Yes, I can, because here's the gaping gap on the other side, which is I've heard Chris Hipkins and Barbara Edmonds say, oh, look, inflation's bad.
Well, what would they have done differently?
In fact, all they have said they would do differently is they would have spent more, got out the spending bazooka and sprayed it all around.
Well, we've had a recent experiment with that.
They did that last time they were in office, and it drove inflation much higher for much longer.
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