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Kwetta Welcome to Kwetta, the future of electric vehicle (EV) charging. At Kwetta, we offer more than just charging solutions.

EV charging but facing grid constraints?
🚀 Easy scaling: Start small, grow big
⚡ Faster connection: Skip costly upgrades
📦 Small footprint: Max power, minimal space
10x more capacity from your existing connection.
🔗 kwetta.com Founded in 2021 and formerly known as Red Phase, we specialise in ultra-fast and efficient grid-supporting EV charging solutions. Our mission is to make sustainable travel accessible and to establish New Zealand as a global leader in EV technology. We provide innovative and scalable options that integrate intelligent grid software to support both personal and heavy transport EVs. Our commitment to sustainability and innovation drives us to create a seamless and reliable charging experience that brings value to everyone. Join us in pioneering the electrified future of transport.

🔗 Visit our website at www.kwetta.com for more information.

Electrification feels overwhelming until someone walks you through it step by step. That's exactly what we set out to do...
11/09/2026

Electrification feels overwhelming until someone walks you through it step by step. That's exactly what we set out to do with Drive Electric.

Heavy fleet operators from across New Zealand and Australia joined us for the Truck Depot Electrification Blueprint webinar — a straight-talking look at what it actually takes to electrify a depot, from first questions to first charge.

Alongside our own Dustin Murdock, we brought together Fonterra on the operator side, Jump Energy on infrastructure delivery, and Scania New Zealand on the vehicle side, to walk operators through site planning, matching trucks to duty cycles, and what the first six months of running an electrified depot actually looks like.

No jargon, no sales pitch — just the real journey and where the landmines sit.

Off the back of it, we've put together the Heavy Transport Electrification Guide: a practical, step-by-step resource covering everything from site readiness to funding to day-to-day operations.

Download the full guide here: https://lnkd.in/eeqPvweE

Ausgrid has published something heavy fleet charger operators should pay attention to.From 1 July 2026, high-voltage cus...
23/07/2026

Ausgrid has published something heavy fleet charger operators should pay attention to.

From 1 July 2026, high-voltage customers connecting to Ausgrid's network can opt into a new tariff — EA976 — that separates their connection into two tiers: firm capacity at the standard rate, and flexible capacity at a discount, in exchange for accepting/allowing curtailment during genuine network constraints.

The reason this is interesting isn't the concept of flexible connections, which networks have been managing operationally for years. It's that Ausgrid has now put a price signal on it. Customers who can operate within dynamic network limits pay differently from those who need fixed capacity access to every kVA. The tariff reflects the actual service being delivered — which, until now, largely didn't.

The Lines Company in New Zealand has been running dynamic flexible connection arrangements long enough that we can point to real outcomes: sites that got capacity they couldn't have accessed on a fixed capacity connection, without waiting years for network augmentation.

Seeing Ausgrid formalise the same offer in a published tariff — in a second jurisdiction, on a much larger network — is a meaningful data point for anyone watching where grid connection innovation is heading, particularly in markets like the Netherlands, Germany, and the UK where flexible connection agreements are already in motion, however the commercial frameworks and customer incentives around them are still developing.

For operators adding large electrical loads onto constrained networks, the practical question this raises is whether your charging infrastructure can actually behave the way a dynamic connection agreement requires — managing capacity in real time, responding to network signals with certainty, curtailing predictably. That's a grid-intelligent hardware and software question as much as a commercial one, and it's where Kwetta's work sits.

AER tariff notification: https://hubs.la/Q04qp1Yw0

TLC case study: https://hubs.la/Q04qp4550

Powerco's Michael O'Brien & Ryno Verster join Kwetta's Mike Lazelle in Amsterdam to unpack grid congestion, netcongestie...
22/07/2026

Powerco's Michael O'Brien & Ryno Verster join Kwetta's Mike Lazelle in Amsterdam to unpack grid congestion, netcongestie, flexibility & the DSO transition.

Powerco (Nieuw-Zeeland) en Kwetta bespreken netcongestie, flexibiliteit en de overgang naar een DSO — opgenomen in Amsterdam.

What does it actually take for a network operator to become a DSO?

In this first episode of Grid Unlocked, Kwetta Co-Founder and Chief Grid Officer Mike Lazelle sits down — live from Amsterdam — with two senior leaders from Powerco, one of New Zealand's largest electricity and gas distribution companies: Michael O'Brien, Head of Network Planning, and Ryno Verster, Director of Powerco's DSO Programme.

Michael and Ryno are in Europe on a fact-finding trip, meeting Dutch and UK DSOs to compare notes on grid congestion (or netcongestie, as it's known here in the Netherlands), flexibility markets, and the shift from a traditional, passive DNO (Distribution Network Operator) model to a more active DSO (Distribution System Operator). The conversation covers Powerco's target of becoming a functional DSO by 2030, real pilot projects and case studies from New Zealand, and what a comparatively lightly-regulated market can learn — and get ahead of — before it hits the same congestion crunch already playing out across Europe.

This episode is a useful listen for investors, DSOs, utilities, regulators and technology providers trying to understand how grid-locked markets like the Netherlands and UK compare to earlier-stage markets like New Zealand — and where the DSO transition is heading next.

Tune in on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwBeMjks7S4
Or Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5iUcehh8xSuOS9XdEFGa5i?si=a191223d32dd4b0c

The real TCO advantage isn’t the truck. It’s the energy strategy behind it.At Downstream, Pamela Walklin and Fonterra's ...
16/04/2026

The real TCO advantage isn’t the truck. It’s the energy strategy behind it.

At Downstream, Pamela Walklin and Fonterra's Fabian Lloyd discussed the energy trilemma in heavy transport electrification and what it means for fleet operators.

The emerging competitive frontier is the ability to master energy.
⚡ Secure power early
⚡ Design charging around logistics patterns
⚡ Adapt operations for electric
⚡ Plan for future scale
⚡ Optimise electricity utilisation

By ~2027, electric trucks are expected to reach Total Cost of Ownership parity and move ahead.

At the same time, demand is accelerating. The trucks are coming. The required megawatts are increasing. Grid constraints are becoming more pronounced.

This raises an important question for the sector: How do we scale electrification in a way that supports reliability, affordability, and sustainability?

The opportunity lies in rethinking fleets as energy assets. Through Vehicle-to-Grid, demand flexibility, and grid support, operators can play an active role in supporting the energy system while improving fleet economics.

Realising this opportunity will require coordination across fleet operators, networks, regulators, and technology providers.

This is the transition now underway.

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