The answer to our future energy supply is blowing in the wind, according to the Government’s renewable energy strategy, and there’s no finer example of wind generation in the Southern Hemisphere than Taraura Wind Farm on the eastern boundary of Palmerston North.
Todd and Shell – these two names have been synonymous as partners in the local oil and gas business for almost half a century. Now Todd Energy, the biggest New Zealand-owned petroleum producer, has broken out on its own and the result, says Todd managing director Richard Tweedie, has been liberating.
It’s the first and only coal-powered thermal power station in the country and is probably going to be the last.
A major new natural gas discovery that substantially lifts the country’s gas reserves has been made by Todd Energy at its 100 percent-owned Mangahewa in Taranaki.
The Department of Labour and GNS Science have entered into a relationship agreement to work together for the benefit of the oil and gas industry.
At strategic direction for energy at last, says Stephen Selwood, chief executive of the Council for Infrastructure Development. But can it deliver?
Nuclear power generation in New Zealand was a serious option in the 1970's, but after the Maui gas field was discovered things were put on hold until the new millennium. The time has come to consider it again.
