23 August 2026
LETS Newsletter No 28
Co-Chair Sam Kivi with our newly designed LETS tee shirt. Photo Credit Sam Kivi.
What's on
News & events
23 August 2026
Tony & Anne's Solar Journey
We have roof-top solar and a storage battery. Cooking and hot water heating are electric. A ULEB wood fire heats the whole house, with a heat pump used very occasionally. We drive an EV and a PHEV which are charged at home.
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23 August 2026
Everingham's Solar Journey
It just made sense for us to go solar. With both of us at home we could use the power when it was generated.
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18 August 2026
Guest Speaker: Social Change & the Electrify Christchurch Expo
Social Change & the Electrify Christchurch Expo
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16 August 2026
Guest speaker: Towards a New Energy Democracy
Join us to hear guest speaker Sam Elder at the Naval Point Club Wardroom, Erskine Point, Lyttelton. A free event.
Book tickets (free event) →23 July 2026
LETS Newsletter No 27
Co-Chair Sam Kivi presenting our guest speaker Sam Elder with a thank you gift at the AGM. Photo Credit Margarita Parra
20 June 2026
LETS Newsletter No 26
Tony Ussher and Margarita Parra at Lyttelton Farmers Market LETS Stall Photo Credit Margarita Parra
18 May 2026
LETS Newsletter No 25
As always there is lots happening at LETS. On June 6th we will be having another Lyttelton Farmers Market Outreach morning from 10-1pm. Pop by if you are interested to find out more. Similarly...
18 April 2026
LETS Newsletter No 24
This past month has seen Sam and Raymond working behind the scenes to move our Project Lyttelton community energy forward. Discussions have been held with Orion to understand what support they can...
21 March 2026
LETS Newsletter No 23
At our last meeting we met our UC Masters Student Joe Beck. That’s Joe above. He gave our team a presentation on what he hopes to achieve with his research in Lyttelton. He’s looking at small sale...
17 February 2026
LETS Newsletter No 22
Your committee are back up and running and looking forward to our programme for 2026. Just a few changes and swaps on our committee. We fare-welled Marie from the Committee and had a shuffle...
24 January 2026
LETS Newsletter No 21
This is a very short newsletter. Just a reminder that we have a LETS committee meeting on Monday 7pm at the Lyttelton Information Centre. You are welcome to attend otherwise hope we see you at our...
11 December 2025
LETS Newsletter No 20
What another big year for LETS. For a fully volunteer organisation we have managed to achieve a lot. Networking, events, projects, presentations, advocacy, attending conferences, meetings,...
6 November 2025
LETS Newsletter No 19
Once again it’s been a busy month for LETS. We are going to support Lyttelton Primary School with their solar system and we are looking forward to a new partnership with Project Lyttelton where we...
16 October 2025
LETS Newsletter No 18
Our stall at the Lyttelton Farmers Market went well. We all enjoyed the conversations and the atmosphere. Thanks to Greg and Dana we have our banner and sign and we think our stall looked great.
14 September 2025
LETS Newsletter No 17
The brainstorm diagram above just gives a pictorial display of all the things your committee is wanting to achieve this term.
14 August 2025
LETS Newsletter No 16
Well the new committee have met a couple of times now. The session above was several of us getting to know each other better and then figuring out what we are setting out to achieve in 25/26.
24 July 2025
LETS Newsletter No 15
If you missed our AGM, the committee was very pleased with a turnout of twenty three people on a cold mid July evening. Thank you to everyone who attended and a big thank you to Guest Speaker...
8 July 2025
LETS AGM
LETS AGM is Wednesday July 16th at 7pm and will be followed by guest speaker Roger Sutton and a light supper.