Emerging Participation Roles
Building what comes next.
Emerging Participation Roles are for those who want to help shape the next frontier of community-energy innovation. These roles explore how new technologies, data, and governance models can extend WE Share Community Power’s impact — from energy generation to mobility, marine systems, and beyond.
How it works in WE Share
- Collaborate on distributed-flexibility services — using smart systems that respond dynamically to supply and demand.
- Explore seasonal-energy storage technologies to balance generation between summer and winter.
- Contribute to the integration of marine and transport-electrification systems, including high-capacity electric-ferry charging, island microgrids, and pilot-scale tidal, wave, and onshore or offshore wind-energy systems adapted to Waiheke’s coastal environment.
- Examine solutions for large-load community and industrial needs — such as quarries, logistics, and essential-service infrastructure — ensuring the island’s future energy independence is comprehensive, not just residential.
- Participate in the Data & AI Ethics Circle, ensuring that data use remains transparent, secure, and community-owned.
- Support governance, consent-based decision-making, and communications roles that help embed innovation into community structures.
Why participate
Emerging Participation Roles invite innovators, researchers, engineers, and community leaders to co-design the systems that will define the next phase of WE Share.
By engaging now, participants help shape solutions to some of Aotearoa’s most complex energy challenges — from household systems to high-demand transport and industrial electrification.
Together, we’re creating an adaptable, community-led blueprint for future-energy ecosystems.
Ready to participate?