The Ōtaki Curtain Bank – Free Curtains for your whānau!
Free curtains for those with a community services card, to help keep your home warmer in the winter. Please pass on to us your pre-loved, clean curtains, fabric, and tracks!
Warm Up Ōtaki: heat, health
Providing insulation, heat pumps, good advice and more for 100+ Ōtaki homes this winter.
Live Data Monitoring
Energise Ōtaki will soon have publicly available data feeding from sustainable energy generation sites in Ōtaki. This would be available on our website, and as public information seen when in, or going through, Ōtaki.
Sustainable Energy Curriculum
There is a continuing project of designing and using resources for Ōtaki College (and others) to teach sustainable energy ideas.
Energy Cubes
‘Energy cubes’ allow students to simulate and test different conditions found in homes and in other buildings. Students learn about the relationship between insulation and energy conservation and loss as part of their Year 9 science curriculum.
E-volocity
Since 2017, Energise Ōtaki has helped support Ōtaki College to compete in the E-volocity Electric Vehicle Challenge. his is a competition to design, build and then race an electric vehicle.