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Speaker 1: I mean it's only Wednesday. In fact, it's only the

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Speaker 1: start of Wednesday. So let's be honest. We've only had

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Speaker 1: two days of new so far, and already two stories

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Speaker 1: around power One Transpower said we need to find more

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Speaker 1: revenues of power generation, and we need to do that

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Speaker 1: quickly because until all the promised transition stuff comes online,

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Speaker 1: we're going to be short of capacity. No kidding. They said,

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Speaker 1: we have a lot of promises on renewable, but the

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Speaker 1: delivery isn't happening all that quickly, no kidding. And then

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Speaker 1: two Genesis says they are looking at what they call

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Speaker 1: a fast start plant at Huntley. Hasn't Huntley become quite

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Speaker 1: the thing? Ah? A while back, Huntley was the ugly

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Speaker 1: girl friend of the power generation family, Poor old, ugly

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Speaker 1: fat Huntley. That was when promises around wind and sun

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Speaker 1: were flying and the future was renewable and we could

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Speaker 1: all save the planet. What a gargantuan cock up that

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Speaker 1: turned out to be. Now, for at least the third

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Speaker 1: winter in a row, the industry's falling over itself to

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Speaker 1: tell us what's not right, what's not delivered, and drumming

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Speaker 1: up new ideas that dere I suggest should have been

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Speaker 1: drummed up a long time ago. As regards Huntley, Gas

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Speaker 1: and coll the coal pile by the why has never

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Speaker 1: been larger. But gas and cole takes twelve hours to

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Speaker 1: get going in short fast starts. Is what it does?

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Speaker 1: You turn it on like a light. Could I ask

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Speaker 1: why is it now they're dreaming up these ideas? Can

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Speaker 1: I ask why is it now that all the power

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Speaker 1: companies are cooperating around Huntley to keep it going for

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Speaker 1: years and years to come? Why is it we wait

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Speaker 1: until we are broken to actually find a few solutions.

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Speaker 1: Wenjesinda made that captain's call to kill the gas industry.

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Speaker 1: Why did no one in the power industry go, hold on,

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Speaker 1: We're not ready? Why are so few proactive? Why is

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Speaker 1: so little preventative planning done? Why do we have winters

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Speaker 1: of angst around rainfall and business cutting production and method

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Speaker 1: excelling their power to others. Why is it we wait

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Speaker 1: until we don't have anything left to think about what

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Speaker 1: to do about getting it back? New Zealand Ink Very

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Speaker 1: nineteen eighty six. For more from the Mic Asking Breakfast,

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