PTC’s workshop on solar-based products was designed to raise awareness about amongst rangatahi at the kura. Renewable energy is fast becoming the future’s more dominant source of new energy systems. According to the International Energy Agency IEA ‘energy prices have been rising since 2021 because of the rapid economic recovery, weather conditions in various parts of the world, maintenance work that had been delayed by the pandemic, and earlier decisions by oil and gas companies and exporting countries to reduce investments. Russia began withholding gas supplies to Europe in 2021, months ahead of its invasion of Ukraine. All that led to already tight supplies.’ However, ‘the current crisis could accelerate the rollout of cleaner, sustainable renewable energy such as wind and solar, just as the 1970s oil shocks spurred major advances in energy efficiency, as well as in nuclear, solar and wind power’.

Becoming a clean and green society is a sustainable solution in the long term.