The emissions footprint of broadband in New Zealand
This paper provides a first assessment of the emissions footprint of the current New Zealand fibre network, with a focus on internet provision to households and small to medium-sized businesses.
Infrastructure consenting for climate targets
This research models the impact on New Zealand’s emissions reduction targets if the current resource consenting system continues to delay decisions on infrastructure project consenting.
Dr Vijaya Ramamurthy
Hamish Hann
Sally Carrick
Rohan Trill
Review of governance of Distributed Energy Resource (DER) technical standards
Sapere was retained by Australia’s Energy Security Board to review governance of technical standards for Distributed Energy Resources (DER).
Essential Freshwater Regulations – Industry Impact Analysis
Sapere was engaged by the Ministry for the Environment to assist with an estimation of the potential impact of regulations resulting from the National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management (2017) and the Essential Freshwater package on the dairy, beef and sheep farming sectors.
Briefing to Incoming Government on Climate Action Priorities
Sapere Director Toby Stevenson and Jeff Smit of DETA Consulting prepared a briefing representing the collective views of the Sustainable Business Council NZ and Climate Leaders Coalition members on climate action priorities.
Review of potential security, reliability, and resilience concerns arising from future scenarios for the electricity industry
This review by David Reeve and Toby Stevenson was commissioned by the Electricity Authority. In recent years a number of organisations have modelled scenarios of the New Zealand energy sector. The Electricity Authority is now undertaking a review of the potential impacts of technological advances and future changes on the long-term reliability, security, and resilience of New Zealand’s electricity system. One of the initial steps in this review is to assess whether existing recent modelling asks and answers questions specific to this review or whether additional modelling is required. The assessment would include specifying modelling still required to address the issues in the review.