Energy NZ toured around the back of the thermal beast that is the Huntly Power station and explored its energy source – the local Rotowaro coalfields.
In the Far North there’s a little, public owned renewable energy company that last year got a whole lot bigger. We look at a project that is taking the region closer to electricity self-sustainability.
It’s easy to overlook the large number of power generators producing less than 10MW around the country unless you are Simply Energy, a company set up in 2005 as a service between small, independent generators and large electricity users.
Landfill gas generation is a growing industry in New Zealand among small generators. One tonne of household rubbish can produce up to 200 cubic metres of gas made up of up to 60 percent of productive methane for running generators.
It’s one of the top diving schools in the world yet has one of the lowest profiles of any export company in the country. Energy NZ visits the New Zealand School of Commercial Diver Training in Huntly on the last training day for nine students on its stage three course.
Engineering’s in the blood of Geoff Henderson, the man behind Windflow Technology’s innovative two-bladed wind turbine.
The world’s largest seafloor massive sulphide explorer, Nautilus Minerals, has located 10 multi-mineral deposits in Tongan waters just north of New Zealand at the northern end of the 2500 kilometre long Kermadec-Tonga Arc.
New Zealand is energy rich but in the present climate of man-made global warming hysteria this may sound almost like heresy, as much of our energy reserves are fossil fuel ones.
Catherine Ross looks at The Electricity (Continuance of Supply) Amendment Bill and asks the question will it deliver optimal outcomes for consumers and New Zealand Inc in the future?
Bryan Gundersen and Helen Sims, from Kensington Swan Lawyers, present both sides of the case for ‘coal to liquid’ technology in New Zealand.
Richard Michael, the chief executive of Straterra, the new association representing our natural resource industries, explains why all sector organisation must work together to unlock our riches.
CTL possibilities and barriers
A united focus