Meridian Energy have opened the Ruakākā Battery Energy Storage System (BESS), NZ’s first large-scale grid battery. The $186m battery has a maximum output of 1000MW and a storage capacity of 200MWh, it can power around 60,000 households during winter for a two-hour...
Contact Energy is piloting an EV Demand Flex Programme to ease pressure on the national electricity grid. With more than 82,500 electric vehicles and 37,300 plug-in hybrids in NZ, charging puts a strain on the grid during peak times. The flex programme with...
Fonterra has officially opened the first electrode boiler at its Edendale site, and announced further plans to progress decarbonisation at its Southern most site. The Co-operative will invest a further $70 million in two new electrode boilers as it moves away from...
The Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority (EECA) and Centre for Sustainable Finance: Toitū Tahua (CSF) have announced a strategic partnership to accelerate private investment in New Zealand’s energy transition. This collaboration aims to address barriers to...
Genesis and joint venture partner FRV Australia have opened the country's largest solar farm to date in Canterbury. More than 90,000 solar panels on the 93-hectare site are now generating up to 100 GWh of electricity a year, enough to power nearly 13,000 households....
KiwiRail has welcomed the arrival of two state-of-the-art Electric Shunt Machines (ESMs) from Germany. Now in the initial commissioning stages, the powerful zero-emissions vehicles are designed to safely handle shunting loads of up to 2000 tonnes, replacing some of...
2degrees has become the first NZ telco to have a science-based net-zero target validated by the Science Based Targets initiative under The Corporate Net-Zero Standard.
WM New Zealand is celebrating a major milestone in its sustainability journey: it can now purchase electric trucks directly from Volvo Trucks as an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) solution. In a significant step toward fleet electrification, WM New Zealand has...
Work is underway to install an EV charging station at Springs Junction, a key route between Christchurch and Nelson. Last week, on-site work started to install two 50kW DC fast chargers at Springs Junction, west of Lewis Pass. Meridian expects to have the site...
A new report by WSP and the Helen Clark Foundation highlights a looming crisis for residential insurance in Aotearoa New Zealand. As climate-related extreme weather events escalate in frequency and intensity, ‘insurance retreat’ could leave thousands of properties...
First Renewables, in partnership with Ecogas confirmed today that the First Renewables biogas upgrade facility, located at the Ecogas Reporoa Organics Processing Facility is now in production. James Irvine, General Manager of Future Fuels at Clarus hailed this as a...
Fuel from wood waste such as forestry slash could create an industry worth $430 million a year and power aircraft, trucks and other transport, research out today finds.