Consultation 2: Potential scenarios

Five potential scenarios for 2050 electricity needs, based on your insights and our research.

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:

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. 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: