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The Te Mihi Power Station is a 166 MW geothermal power station owned and operated by Contact Energy, located north of Taupō in New Zealand. The resource consent for the power station was "called in" by the Minister for the Environment Trevor Mallard under the terms of the Resource Management Act. The appointed Board of Enquiry granted the ...
Ngatamariki is a geothermal power station commissioned in 2013 and operated by Mercury Energy.It is located approximately 17 km north east of Taupō and was constructed well under the budget of $475 million.
English: A geothermal drilling rig near Lake Taupo, New Zealand. The region has a long history of geothermal power plants going back almost half a century, and a number of new wells are now being dug for large new generation facilities.
Craters of the Moon Thermal Area (or Karapiti in Māori language) is a region with geothermal activity north of Taupō, New Zealand.It is a part of Wairakei, the largest geothermal field in New Zealand, with a surface area of about 25 km 2, which lies in the Taupō Volcanic Zone.
The Tauhara Power Station is a geothermal power station north of Taupō in New Zealand. Previously known as Tauhara 2, the project is being developed by Contact Energy and Tauhara Moana Trust [3] and opened in November 2024. At its peak it can produce up to 174 megawatts of electricity, enough to power about 200 thousand homes.
Nga Awa Purua is New Zealand's second largest geothermal power station [2] and the steam turbine is the largest geothermal turbine in the world. [ 3 ] The power station is a joint venture between Mercury Energy (75%) and the Tauhara North No 2 Trust (25%), who represent about 800 owners affiliated to Ngati Tahu. [ 4 ]
The Hipaua geothermal area is shown to the south of Lake Taupō in light blue. In this map recent eruption vents are in red and are some distance away. The 0.75-kilometre (0.47 mi) long steaming cliffs are part of a 7-hectare (17-acre) [ 1 ] geothermal area that crosses the escarpment on the line of the Waihi fault.
The reefs are at a high heat-output geothermal hot spot area within the Taupō Volcano. [3] This is related to rhyolitic lava domes extruded after explosive volcanism. [4] The explosive eruptions include the VEI 7 Hatepe eruption of 232 ± 10 CE that ejected over 120 km 3 (29 cu mi) of material (also known as Horomatangi Reef Unit Y eruption) [5] and its linear line of eruption centres, [6] as ...