To Tatou Mihana
🌍 Our Purpose
To empower Whāingaroa with local renewable energy, energy-efficient homes, and community-led solutions to reduce hardship, lower carbon emissions, and build climate resilience.
To Tatou Matakite
🌱 Our Vision
A thriving, resilient Whāingaroa where everyone regardless of income or circumstance — lives in a warm, energy-efficient home, is uplifted by local renewable energy, and is empowered to take part in community-led climate solutions rooted in care, responsibility, and collective wellbeing.
Ko wai kua whai waahi
Who's Involved
Xtreme Zero Waste Trust
100% locally owned and operated Charitable Trust that holds the environmental, social and economic values of Xtreme Zero Waste and Community Energy Whāingaroa. Much like XZW has created a pathway for zero waste locally, CEWh are here to create services and responses to the way we generate and use energy locally. Always with the communities best interests at heart.
The Community Energy Network
CEN work to grow local resilience and community leadership in the energy and healthy homes sectors throughout Aotearoa. Successfully minimising energy hardship and increasing energy efficiency for the last 20 years through direct, in-home retrofits and education. We are fortunate to have CEN as partners providing leadership and technical support to Community Energy Whāingaroa.
Local Service Providers
Raglan based Stendy Solar pay close attention to the quality of equipment and workmanship to ensure optimal lifetime production and reliability of CEWh solar installs. Home Performance Advisor training certifies CEWh assessors and energy mentors to work with whanau to make homes warmer, drier and more efficient. Community education and training in energy conservation and innovation is a key CEWh outcome.
Funders
Local Service Providers
We are fortunate to be supported by and funded by WEL Energy Trust to facilitate our Healthy Homes Programme and our Solar Garden Feasibility Study.
"we can produce our own power"
Community Energy Projects in Aotearoa
