We want your feedback
Read our first consultation document here and share your views through our online survey. The consultation is open until 14 August 2025.
As owner and operator of our national electricity grid, Transpower has a role to play to enable the electrification and future economic growth of Aotearoa.
Transpower’s Te Kanapu initiative is bringing together ideas from across Aotearoa to develop a National Grid for the future.
For the next 18 months, we’ll be putting in the groundwork to ensure we have a reliable, resilient and affordable national electricity grid in the future.
We’ve started by thinking about how Aotearoa will look in 2050 – our economy, our population, how we’ll live, work and play – so that we can understand the kind of electricity infrastructure we’re going to need to support that future.
How you can get involved
There are plenty of opportunities to get involved in this work.
For consultation 1, we’re looking for your views on the future of our economy and the role that energy will play. How will we be living in 2050? What will our biggest exports be? Where will energy be generated? Where will we use it most? What should we be considering and why?
Please read our first consultation document here and share your views through our online survey. The consultation is open until 14 August 2025.
Why we’re doing this
Transpower needs to understand how Aotearoa might look in 2050 so we have time to plan and build the national electricity grid needed to help deliver that future.
It’s not easy planning that far ahead. We usually plan 10-15 years into the future, so thinking about the electricity Aotearoa will need in 25 years or more is charting new territory for us.
We’ll use the information we gather to build and publish a grid blueprint for the future, to guide Transpower’s investments in the national electricity grid and the way we manage the electricity system. The grid blueprint will also support industry and those in the energy sector with their long-term planning.
At its core, Te Kanapu is about ensuring the transmission network supports Aotearoa to thrive and grow as it electrifies.
Consultations
We’ll have three consultations in 2025. We’ll release a draft grid blueprint in July 2026, before releasing the final grid blueprint later in the year.
