Energise Ōtaki

Energise Ōtaki is the name chosen by the Ōtaki community to represent the goal of becoming a net producer of clean energy and to act as a focal point for community action.

'Helping Ourselves to A Smart Future' is the Energise Ōtaki by-line. Change will be achieved through community action, projects large and small, and alliances with key partners.

Energise Ōtaki is primarily a broad ‘umbrella’ concept under which a range of organisations and individuals come together to achieve change.

Individual and collective action, home, street, business, neighbourhood and town based energy conservation and clean energy production projects are at the heart of the Energise Ōtaki community vision.

Some of the projects we are involved in are community solar farms, the Ōtaki Bike Space, Repair Café, Ōtaki Curtain Bank, community gardens, E-volocity at Ōtaki College, sustainable energy curriculum in schools, solar panels on Ōtaki College and other locations, monitoring sustainable energy, public meetings to discuss sustainable energy ideas. Find out more at https://energise.otaki.net.nz/ or come and visit us at 7 Main St, Ōtaki.

Energise Ōtaki is run mainly by volunteers supported by a few staff. Setting up the projects, investigating new ones and maintaining and expanding existing projects takes resources and time that your contribution will help with. Funds raised will be used for EO development and support for other projects.

Energise Ōtaki is about the goal of the town becoming a net producer of clean energy, and of finding ways to give people, businesses and community groups the tools to harvest the environmental, social and economic benefits of a different energy future.