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Heather du Plessis Allan: We need to rethink whether this is the kind of country, and electricity system we want to be running

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I'll tell you what, this morning I woke up at seven basically on the dot and when I looked at the time, I thought jeez, it's seven and I pulled my charger out of my phone because just so that I wasn't the one who tipped the entire country into darkness.  It was a relief, wasn't it, that we managed to make it, make it through two hours this morning without the power going out.  Apparently, according to Transpower, it's basically the reason that we managed to do it is because we all chipped in.  We all did our bit, the major electricity users did there.  But in between all of us, we managed to save about 260 megawatts in terms of demand. And that's actually not a bad effort by us, because, yesterday the forecast was that they were going to be down 200 megawatts.  So, we did pretty well. But we need to talk about this because this is not going to be the last time this year that we get this message and that we have to rally and pull our phones out of the chargers, take the bike off the charge. Do not put the kett