We’re building a future grid blueprint, to help plan what investment is needed to support Aotearoa to grow to 2050 and beyond.
To inform that process, we’ve developed five potential scenarios of what Aotearoa’s electricity needs might look like in 2050, and we want your feedback on whether these are plausible possibilities and what we might have missed.
Consultation is open to 5pm, Friday 14 November 2025
We’ve produced a consultation document that includes the five potential scenarios as well as a range of background information on the inputs, methodologies and assumptions we are using.
Read the consultation document
There are several ways you can provide us with your feedback:
- Complete our online feedback form
- Download our form and email it to [email protected]
- Email us directly at [email protected] without using the form
We’re also happy to meet with you to discuss our scenarios – to organise a presentation and discussion to your business, community group, iwi or industry body, email [email protected].
Any information you provide will only be used for the purposes of the Te Kanapu programme, including to keep you up to date. If there is information that you share with us that you wish to keep confidential for commercial or other purposes, please include a note to that effect.
Background information
To support this consultation, we are making available a range of other documents that we relied on:
- Detailed deep dive models (excel workbooks) – coming soon
- 2025 Generation Stack: a snapshot (Beca and Concept Consulting Report)
- 2025 Generation Stack full report (Beca and Concept Consulting)
- Future Grid scenario modelling: Visions of the New Zealand economy to 2050 (Sense Partners)
- Industrial Electrification Survey Summary (DETA Consulting)