Contact Energy
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Contact Energy is a New Zealand electricity generation and electricity retailing company.
The company generates 25% of the country's electricity from the Roxburgh and Clyde hydro-electric dams in Otago, and geothermal and natural gas-fired power plants in the North Island. In 2007, it has announced plans to invest NZ$ 2 billion into wind- and geothermal power plants within the next 5 years.[1]
Contact Energy was formed out of the partitioning of Electricity Corporation of New Zealand in 1996, and publicly listed in 1999.
[edit] Power Stations
These New Zealand power stations are fully owned and operated by Contact Energy.
- Otahuhu A, synchronous compensation (was diesel fired open cycle gas turbines)
- Otahuhu B, 380 MW combined cycle gas turbine
- Te Rapa, 42 MW cogeneration
- Ohaaki, geothermal
- Poihipi, geothermal
- Wairakei, geothermal (to be replaced by Te Mihi)
- New Plymouth, closed (was 600 MW steam cycle, dual fuel; natural gas and oil)
- Stratford, 375 MW combined cycle gas turbine
- Clyde, 430 MW hydro
- Roxburgh, 320 MW hydro
Contact owns 25% of the Oakey power station, a 280 MW gas turbine (near Toowoomba in Australia). Contact operates the Whirinaki power station, a 157MW diesel fueled gas turbine plant owned by the New Zealand government.
Planned or potential power stations focus on renewable generation.
- Te Mihi, 220 MW geothermal (from 2011)
- Centennial Drive, 20 MW geothermal
- Waikato wind farm, Hauāuru mā raki,
- Hawea, 17 MW hydro (from 2012)
[edit] References
- ^ New Zealand to be carbon neutral by 2020---- (from Ecos 7, April-May 2007, Page 136. Retrieved 2007-11-26.)
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