It is evident that these failures are a consequence of decades of under-investment in our infrastructure, including our national electricity grid. Using even more fossil fuels is simply not an option, nor are further blackouts. What's needed is to ramp up our investment in renewable energy so that we reach 100 percent renewable electricity production urgently. That means more solar, more wind, more tidal, more geothermal. Te Paati Māori has pushed strongly for significantly higher levels of investment in transition to renewable energy and clean technology. The irony is not lost on us that this national widespread power shortage occurred on the same day the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released their latest report showing we are on a collision course with climate catastrophe.