[Audio: Upbeat music plays]

[Visual: The MBIE logo appears on a light green background]

Narrator: Kiwis use energy every day to connect,

[Visual: A salesperson at a flower shop appears using a laptop at a counter, wearing an orange top and purple pants. Products on shelves and tables, overhead electric lights, three sheets of paper pinned to the wall, a purple watering can, and a sign reading ‘Flowers’ then appear around her, sliding into frame.]

Narrator: Power our businesses,

[Visual: The salesperson transitions to from left to right, to being in a green delivery van marked ‘Flowers’ on a road with Auckland City in the background. There is a bouquet of flowers in the passenger seat.]

Narrator: Move around,

[Visual: the van moves offscreen to the left and is replaced by a red car at night with this woman driving, and the headlights on. The same Auckland backdrop is visible.]

Narrator: Stay warm and dry.

[Visual: The image shifts to a woman seated in a living room with her feet up on a small table with several books and a potted plant. There is a fire or gas heater in front of her on the right of the image, a window behind her to the left of the image, and décor on the walls and shelves. The living room setting appears on screen from right to left.]

Narrator: But some of the fuels we use are harming our climate, which is causing severe weather events and risking our homes.

[Visual: The image zooms out the window of the living room to an outdoor area with a river in the centre of the frame, a hut or shed to the right, several trees on the right and left, and dark grey clouds overhead. The image becomes increasingly grey as wind and rain begin to occur, and the river swells.]

Narrator: To look after our tamariki, we need to reduce our use of fossil fuels like petrol, gas, and coal

[Visual: The image fades into one of four people against a muted pink background. One person holds a lightbulb in their hand also coloured muted pink. The image zooms in on the lightbulb, and an oil well, a gas fired plant, and a coal silo appear as the individual fade out.]

Narrator: and use more clean energy like bioenergy, green hydrogen, and renewable electricity from hydro, geothermal, solar and wind.

[Visual: The lightbulb image flips, and the colour changes to sky blue. Several pieces of renewable energy infrastructure appear – a blue truck, a blue and white hydrogen pump marked ‘H2’, which has a green pipeline which connects to the truck, a hill with three solar panels below three wind turbines, and finally a lake with hydro dam and installation which appears to the right of the hill, above the truck and hydrogen pump.]

Narrator: MBIE has an energy transition work programme to help us get to net zero 2050 in a way that keeps the lights on, keeps power bills affordable, and keeps our economy growing.

[Visual: The image zooms into the top of the lightbulb from earlier, and a red bookshop marked ‘Books’ appears in the centre, a green florist marked ‘Flowers’ appears on the right, and an orange house appears on the left. Three commercial buildings also appear – a purple one to the right, a blue one roughly in the centre, and a dark teal one on the left. There are two trees to the left and right of the image, along with three bushes throughout the frame. 

A hillside like the one seen earlier appears, with a single solar panel. A solar panel then appears on top of the dark teal coloured commercial building on the left of the image, and lights appear in the windows of this building and the purple commercial building to the right of the image. Three wind turbines then appear on the hill above the solar panel.]

Narrator: That’s why we’re consulting on: a plan for managing the gas industry’s transition to 2035;

[Visual: The image rotates to a grassy area with blue sky and three clouds, and a body of water to the centre and right of the image. A dark teal coloured gas plant appears, with a tower next to a smaller station. A flame appears on top of the tower.]

Narrator: an interim hydrogen roadmap to provide direction on the future role of hydrogen in New Zealand;

[Visual: A blue or teal hydrogen tank appears down and to the right of the gas plant, with ‘H2’ on the side in white lettering. A truck with a blue or teal cab and a yellow/orange two-tone container appears, driving left to right, and a small pipeline appears linking the tank and the truck.]

Narrator: regulations to enable renewable energy development at sea;

[Visual: Three wind turbines appear from the ocean, two shorter ones on either side of a taller central turbine. The blades of the two smaller turbines appear first, and begin spinning, followed by the blades of the taller, central one, which also begin spinning.]

Narrator: and measures to make sure electricity is reliable and affordable during the transition.

[Visual: Three electricity pylons/power lines appear to the right of the wind turbines. The leftmost one appears first, followed by two to the right of the first, and further back towards the body of water. They become linked by yellow power lines which connect left to right. A yellow box appears squarely in front of leftmost and central pylons, with a generic battery icon and voltage symbol. ]

Narrator: Have your say on the future of the energy system at mbie.govt.nz.   

[Visual: The image rotates again, following the ocean line, showing a sunny sky and three clouds. The words ‘Have your say’ appear in dark blue lettering. A search bar and cursor then appears, and the web address ‘mbie.govt.nz/ourenergyfuture’ appears within the search bar. The image briefly remains static, and then the image rotates again to the same blue ocean surface with a sunny sky and three clouds. The MBIE logo appears to the left, and the New Zealand Government logo appears to the right.]