News and Publications

On this page you will find:

• Information for media
• Community Energy Action in the news
• Publications
• Annual Reports
• Energy Advice Service newsletters
• Media releases

Information for media

Community Energy Action is a charitable trust and will issue media statements especially when it feels people's ability to keep warm and healthy at home is compromised and where it concerns vulnerable people such as the elderly, the sick, families with small children and those on low incomes in general. Please contact the Marketing and Communications Coordinator for more information or see below for a list of previous media releases.

Community Energy Action in the news

• CTV, City Life: 22 November 2011
• CTV, City Life: 2 August 2011

Publications

Are you using an un-flued LPG cabinet heater? (116.24 KB) 

Annual Reports

 Annual Report 2010.pdf (472.96 KB)

Annual Report 2009 (832.62 KB)

Annual Report 2008 (977.94 KB)

Energy Advice Service Newsletters

For a list of newsletters from the Home Energy Advice Centre, click here.

To subscribe to Home Energy Advice Centre newsletters, click here.  

List of media releases

27 July 2011: New life for condemned curtains

Curtains from a condemned retirement home are salvaged this Friday and provided for free to struggling households. Staff from Christchurch business Arc Innovations are donating their time to remove the curtains which will be distributed to needy families through local charity Community Energy Action. More ...

11 May 2011: Local charity sees nearly 4000 homes insulated

In Christchurch, a large part of the 100,000 houses insulated nationwide under the government’s Warm Up New Zealand: Heat Smart subsidy scheme have been insulated by local charity Community Energy Action. Prime Minister John Key today cut the ribbon to the 100,000th house to have benefited from the scheme. More...

7 April 2011: Risk of skyrocketing power bills with free heat pump

Free heat pumps installed in Christchurch homes with broken chimneys may turn out to be a Trojan Horse. Without sufficient insulation, people may be inviting skyrocketing power bills in at the same time.  More ...

17 March 2011: Twice hit charitable trust keeps going

A Canterbury trust working to make houses warmer and drier has been made homeless for the second time in 5 months but vows to keep going. Community Energy Action Charitable Trust’s Hazeldean premises, where they had moved to after the September earthquake destroyed their Moorhouse Ave building, were badly damaged in the latest quake. Despite the set-backs, the charitable trust will keep working and has already restarted insulation services in Rangiora last week. More...