Willis ScottSCOTT WILLIS (Green): I don't want to suggest what that might've been Mr Speaker! But I would like to say that the Minister the Hon Simeon Brown certainly loves gas and gaslighting because he's pouring more fuel on the climate crisis. I am more interested in the actual practical steps that this Government is willing to do to decarbonise our energy system. There is an abundance of renewable energy potential in Aotearoa and the Minister is wrong—he's wrong—when he says we have to choose between coal and gas. I'm really tired of this prosperity gospel gibberish on gas. Why won't this Minister deliver what's needed? We already have 1551 megawatts of consented wind. We have hundreds of megawatts of consented solar. They can be built tomorrow.I've got some questions for the Minister. When is the Minister going to look at the broken electricity market and fix it to make it attractive to build consented renewables? Wind and solar farms can be built tomorrow if needed. Our electricity market is dominated by four gentailers who control generation capacity and they are receiving high profits from the fossil fuel component. That doesn't benefit households. That doesn't help us get off gas. When will the Government acknowledge that a modern flexible distributed renewable electricity system is feasible is simple and can be delivered now?When will this Government allow a transparent electricity market to allow new electricity generation allow innovation like incorporating electric vehicles hot water cylinders solar plus batteries cold store in a flexible distributed energy system? That can be done now. So what advice has the Minister received on whether shutting down the Climate Emergency Response Fund and the Government Investment in Decarbonising Industry initiative has exacerbated has gas shortages by enabling a key way of getting gas-polluting companies off gas? Will the Minister embrace the Greens' clean power plan to provide grants to households to help transition away from gas and reduce demand?Really looking around the House some politicians need to get their heads above the inversion layer and see what some clean air looks like. It looks like renewables. It looks exactly like what every major investment bank and business consultant group is advising. It looks like the basic stuff that so many of our peers around the world are already doing. And it looks like the call from 350 Aotearoa who want homegrown energy. It looks like the call from FlexForum to unlock the value of distributed energy resources and flexibility. It looks like the call from the Community Energy Network for democratising our energy system for resilience for our climate response to keep the energy dollar local. So we can have cheaper cleaner smarter power but this Government simply seems bereft of ideas.There is no doubt that we have a capacity issue right now during the colder months but it's simply a result of Government inaction. Firstly the cheapest power is that which we don't use. So where is the investment in the expansion of the Warmer Kiwi Homes scheme? The success that we've seen with innovators like Aukaha and the deeper upgrades through the Otago Home Upgrade Programme through all of those innovators in the Community Energy Network—where is the strengthening of resource standards' healthy home requirements to reduce household demand to get gas out of households.The Minister and his colleagues say they want to overcome green unicorn thinking. I suggest it would be far better to embrace science-based thinking in transition engineering to build a sustainable future rather than die as a dinosaur in a climate hell.