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Speaker 1: More renewable power as coming. Last week it was hunting

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Speaker 1: in batteries. This week it's Loadstone Energy and the solar farm.

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Speaker 1: It's in Toomocha. Construction starts lightly this month or early next.

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Speaker 1: I think Gerry Holden's managing director of Loadstones will us

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Speaker 1: Gary morning.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, how are you well?

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Speaker 1: Thank you? What's your portfolio? You've got any solar in

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Speaker 1: there already?

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Speaker 2: Night?

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: This is the South Canterbury site in Clandi Boys, our

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Speaker 2: fifth project, and so we we're now on the South

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Speaker 2: Island and effectively trying to build a solar farm in

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Speaker 2: every community that we can and follow the population. You know,

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Speaker 2: have a scattering of generation that kind of lines up

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Speaker 2: with where the businesses and and and residences are all solar,

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Speaker 2: all solar.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we we We've got an innovative contracts that takes

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Speaker 3: a solar from a farm and sells it to a

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Speaker 3: business era or a property that simulates as if those solar.

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Speaker 2: Panels are on the facility. And so we pretty much

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Speaker 2: feel like there's a kind of an open end of

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Speaker 2: how many of these projects we can do.

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Speaker 1: Who do you sell to? Do you sell to a retailer?

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Speaker 2: We primarily we sell directly to customers.

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Speaker 1: So you're a John Taylor.

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Speaker 2: As they say, we essentially are a new version of

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Speaker 2: a gent tailor that's focused on solar and ultimately we'll

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Speaker 2: be adding batteries to our farms to round out.

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Speaker 1: The generation that battery thing. So the Huntley I don't

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Speaker 1: know if you're up on, but the Huntly thing last week.

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Speaker 1: So they're going to do these I can't remember the

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Speaker 1: number of gigs. I think megah whatever it was. They're

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Speaker 1: going to do one hundred and twenty thousand houses by

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Speaker 1: twenty thirty five, two major batteries and that will be

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Speaker 1: for two hours supply. That struck me as disappointing. Are

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Speaker 1: batteries really the answer for major storage for long term

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Speaker 1: use or not? No?

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Speaker 2: I mean they're designed just to shift energy from one

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Speaker 2: part of the day to the other. And I think

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Speaker 2: I think for Genesis there anticipating that, you know, if

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Speaker 2: there ultimately is a solar farm in every community, then

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Speaker 2: there will be energy in the afternoon when the sun

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Speaker 2: is shining that you could shift into the evening. And

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Speaker 2: so they're just they're just getting a bit ahead of

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Speaker 2: the curve. And it's quite a quite a good idea

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Speaker 2: and it enables quite a lot of solar to be built.

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Speaker 1: Okay, are you happy with the consent process of you

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Speaker 1: able to do business in a way that suits you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, We've we've got six more consented sites actually in

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Speaker 2: our portfolio coming. And you know, our strategy has been

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Speaker 2: to keep them relatively small, have them tuck into communities

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Speaker 2: and maybe even behind a hedgerow so you can't really

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Speaker 2: even see them, and then put sheep underneath and keep

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Speaker 2: the productive value of the land going. And so so

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Speaker 2: when you when you approach it from that direction, consenting

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Speaker 2: has been really quite a straightforward process.

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Speaker 1: Good stuff. Good to hear, Gary, and get you on

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Speaker 1: to get and carry Holden, who's the Boodstone Energy managing director.

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Speaker 1: It's it's moving it. Hi's the old renewable story. I'm

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Speaker 1: fascinated with it.

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