The Grid Blueprint will be a key tool that supports planning decisions across the sector including investors, generators, large electricity users, distributors, developers, and other key decision makers. Their input is essential.
We are developing the blueprint by engaging widely, gathering views, information and knowledge from many others.
Since early in 2025, we’ve been talking with people about their ambitions for the future and have sought specific feedback on our work through formal consultations – receiving more than 300 written submissions to date.
We are testing our assumptions with hundreds of stakeholder organisations throughout the process, with their feedback and insights directly informing our decisions. This has included engaging through meetings, workshops, webinars and conference presentations.
We welcome feedback on our work. Please contact us at [email protected] if you’d like to talk or have any questions.
Working with ConsumerNZ
Toward the end of 2025, we partnered with ConsumerNZ to survey Kiwi consumers about what they thought of New Zealand's energy future. The feedback they received was shared with us and has supported our work to develop the Grid Blueprint.
To support that consultation, ConsumerNZ wrote this article and created a great video for Facebook - check it out here.
What others are saying about Te Kanapu
Independent economic agency NZIER recently published a Special Feature on Te Kanapu in the September 2026 edition of Quarterly Predictions, one of their key publications available exclusively to NZIER members.
The article brings together information drawn from our insights paper Fuelling growth by enabling a diverse mix of generation, EECA’s TIMES-NZ 3.0 model and other work completed by NZIER to provide deeper economic insight around the future of the electricity system.
You can read copy of the article, How can New Zealand’s electricity system keep pace with electrification, here, reproduced for our readers with permission from NZIER.
Consultations and feedback received
2026 | |
| July | Future Direction – Our Energy Scenarios: Summary of Submissions (pdf) |
| March | Future Direction - Our Energy Scenarios: Consultation (pdf) |
| March | Future Direction Data Book (xlsx) |
| March | Potential Scenarios: Summary of submissions (pdf) |
2025 | |
| October | Potential Scenarios: Consultation (pdf) |
| September | Imagining Aotearoa in 2050: Summary of survey responses (pdf) |
| July | Imagining Aotearoa in 2050: Consultation (pdf) |