{"id":16073,"date":"2025-12-18T06:10:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T17:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=16073"},"modified":"2025-12-18T06:10:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T17:10:30","slug":"households-ponder-pros-cons-of-gas-against-electricity-as-supply-dwindles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=16073","title":{"rendered":"Households ponder pros, cons of gas against electricity as supply dwindles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Renewables advocates claim it&#8217;s &#8220;madness&#8221; that thousands of new piped gas connections are being installed into houses every year, despite dwindling supply.<\/p>\n<p>Organisations pushing for the country to electrify say households will face steeply rising bills in the short term and huge costs when they eventually need to switch.<\/p>\n<p>They say the country&#8217;s declining natural gas supply should be saved as much as possible for manufacturers and other businesses, who are facing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/in-depth\/581471\/lost-in-transition-the-businesses-trapped-by-new-zealand-s-energy-crisis\">a costly and disorderly transition away from fossil fuels<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One advocate says, instead of banning new connections, an education campaign combined with a proposed financing scheme to help households switch to electric would be a better choice.<\/p>\n<p>Data from the gas registry shows the overall number of &#8216;active&#8217; gas connections has dropped and the rate of new connections has slowed.<\/p>\n<p>However, new connections are still proceeding &#8211; more than 2000 were added in the last year, at a rate of nearly 200 a month.<\/p>\n<p>RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renewables advocates claim it&#8217;s &#8220;madness&#8221; that thousands of new piped gas connections are being installed into houses every year, despite dwindling supply. Organisations pushing for the country to electrify say households will face steeply rising bills in the short term and huge costs when they eventually need to switch. They say the country&#8217;s declining natural [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":16074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16075,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16073\/revisions\/16075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}