Newsroom: People power: the revolution in electricity

The Tiwai Point closure announcement has put the spotlight on a gnarly and potentially expensive problem in our electricity network - the gap between where a lot of our power is produced (the South) and where it is used (the North), not to mention the more than 5 percent of our electricity that’s lost as it moves through the wires. Will 'distributed generation' be the solution? (Partner content)

This is the second in a series of articles as part of a content partnership between Newsroom and Te Waihanga.

Read the full Newsroom piece here(external link).