Feature | Rewiring rural New Zealand’s approach to power

Rocketing power prices and uncertainty about generating more are keeping many people up at night, but Mike Casey reckons farmers have everything they need to power up right now. The chief executive of Rewiring Aotearoa has transformed his cherry orchard into a solar powered operation and he reckons every farmer should do the same.To Mike, it’s just a sound business decision as his power bills have plummeted, the capital outlay will be repaid in five years and he’s sorted if a storm knocks out the regional power supply.