The country’s largest geothermal power generation development for two decades was commissioned in August.
New Zealand was one of the leaders in harnessing underground steam to generate electricity. We built the second geothermal power station in the world and were the first to use wet steam (a mixture of steam and hot water).
Mighty River Power’s latest geothermal venture is the company’s biggest scheme yet and a vital part of its drive to produce 500MW of geothermal power by 2012.
Where else but windy Wellington as a site for the world’s most efficient wind farm? Energy NZ visits Meridian’s West Wind project as the foundations were laid.
The tides are moving strongly in favour of marine energy, promising to add a whole new form of renewable power generation.
The country’s most advanced and largest marine energy project is underway at the mouth of the Kaipara Harbour.
Marine Energy Deployment Fund is a capital grant programme, offering up to $2 million per annum over the next four years for the deployment of prototype marine energy devices.
The multicultural, international Kupe onshore production station site, and part of the $1.1 billion Kupe energy development, has become a thriving village.
Doomsday may be at hand for petrol-heads but not for fossil fuels. Energy NZ peers over the hydrogen horizon.
On the eve of his departure from the top job at Genesis Energy, Murray Jackson talks to Hugh de Lacy in an exclusive interview with Energy NZ magazine.
There’s something slightly Willy Wonkerish about Chris Woudenberg’s world of pressure gauges in Penrose, Auckland.
Addressing skill shortages across the oil and gas sector is the focus of an ‘industry skill action plan’ to be launched in Wellington this spring by the Department of Labour.
Climate change has become a hot issue worldwide and, in the absence of desisive legislative, judiciaries are under increasing pressure to make decisions involving greenhouse gas emissions.
The escalating cost of carbon on the international market makes the Government’s proposed Emission Trading Scheme look like an economic disaster waiting to happen.
Kiwi engineers have a golden era looming for geothermal technology export in a world that is becoming increasingly carbon constrained.
Guy Salmon from Ecologic has a good theory on why the Resource Management Act is almost guaranteed to result in delay, cost and failure – it’s an adversarial system, full of mumbo-jumbo and waffle.
Celebrating 50 years of steam
The making of West Wind
Wonder world of pressure gauges
