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The Te Huka Geothermal Power Station, also known as Tauhara One, is a 23 MW binary cycle geothermal power station situated near Taupō, New Zealand. The power station is operated by Contact Energy . In July 2008, Contact Energy announced that the contract for supply and construction of the binary cycle equipment was awarded to Ormat Technologies .
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.
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 first geothermal area to be exploited for commercial electricity generation was The Geysers, a complex of 22 geothermal power stations located in Sonoma and Lake counties of California, which was commissioned in September 1960. [1]
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 ...
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 $430 million project first ...
Work at the geothermal field site on the first stage of the plant (82 MW) commenced in July 2011 [7] and the plant became operational in September, 2013, one month later than scheduled. [ 2 ] [ 8 ] The power station is a binary plant, supplied under an EPC contract by Ormat . [ 9 ]
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.