1:15 pm today

Could Australia hold the key to cheaper electricity?

From Afternoons, 1:15 pm today

The cost of power has been a major factor in our cost-of-living crisis but hope may be on the horizon. TheTaslink project would see New Zealand and Australia connected by the world's longest and deepest undersea cable, allowing the two countries to power share. Theoretically, New Zealand could make use of their excess solar power and in return they would use our wind-generated power. Richard Homewood, co-director of Taslink, speaks to Jesse today.

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