Wednesday, August 13, 2014

New Zealand:

166 MW Te Mihi Power Station Opens Today (New Zealand Herald)


Contact Energy's new $623 million geothermal power station has been supplying power to thousands of homes since October 2013 but it will officially be opened by the Deputy Prime Minister, Bill English, today.

However, sagging domestic electricity demand and doubt about the future of some big industrial users means building of large wind and geothermal stations of the last 10 years is at an end.

Contact chief executive Dennis Barnes said the Ti Mihi plant with two 83 MW steam turbines could power more than 160,000 homes.

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