"We just started to realise there is a lot to be proud of about electricity in New Zealand and that whole 'number-eight-wire-fence' mentality," Reeve said.
"About people back then not being scared to do things that no one had done before. The other thing was the really interesting stories about people that no one had heard of before."
The documentary features power stations from all over the country including the many hydro stations that were constructed along the Waikato River.
Reeve said towns like Mangakino now exist because of the development of electricity schemes.
In Cambridge, Simon Reynolds has spent countless hours editing the first two epsiodes and there are still three more to go.
"A lot of the credit has to go to Steve and Dave," Reynolds said.
"The amount of research that has gone into this project is enormous. I mean my job is pulling together those resources the guys have given me, and animating them, making them actually work within the dialogue the narrative of the actual video."
"We're not video makers by training," Batstone said.
"We are boring old economists from the electricity sector right, so this is all new to us but we have learned so much about how much work goes into making something like this."
The first episode is already available free to watch online.
The second episode explains how the state first got involved in electricity development, hence the hope to premiere it at the Beehive.
By the end of the year, all five episodes of the Powering New Zealand documentary will be available to the public.
"We want to get this out there because we are just so delighted with the footage and the stories we're telling," Batstone said.
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