Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Waitaki Dam is one of eight hydroelectric power stations which form the Waitaki hydroelectric scheme on the Waitaki River in the Canterbury Region of New Zealand. The dam was the first of three to be built on the Waitaki River and was constructed without earthmoving machinery; over half a million cubic metres of material was excavated, almost entirely by pick-and-shovel. [2]
The lake is created by the Waitaki Dam, a 36m high concrete gravity dam built between 1928 and 1934. Waitaki Dam was the first hydroelerctic dam built on the Waitaki river. The Waitaki power station has a total installed capacity of 105MW. Waitaki was the last dam built in New Zealand with excavation done with pick and shovel, not heavy ...
The Waitaki River is a large braided river in the South Island of New Zealand. It drains the Mackenzie Basin and runs 209 kilometres (130 mi) south-east to enter the Pacific Ocean between Timaru and Oamaru on the east coast. It starts at the confluence of the Ōhau and Tekapo rivers, now at the head of the artificial Lake Benmore, these rivers ...
Benmore (540 MW) (2,200 GWh) 1965. Aviemore (220 MW) (940 GWh) 1968. Waitaki (105 MW) (500 GWh) 1935. Project Aqua was a proposed scheme of six dams on a man made canal running from the Waitaki Dam to the sea. It was cancelled by Meridian Energy on 29 March 2004.
Hydroelectric power in New Zealand has been a part of the country's energy system for over 100 years and continues to provide more than half of the country's electricity needs. Hydroelectricity is the primary source of renewable energy in New Zealand. Power is generated the most in the South Island and is used most in the North Island.
The lake is the reservoir of Benmore Dam, New Zealand's largest earth dam, [5] which was created as part of the Waitaki hydroelectricity power scheme. Construction of Benmore Dam was approved in 1957 [6] and the lake was filled in December 1964. [5] After the lake was created the incidence of seismic shocks increased by a factor of three to six ...
Annual generation. 2,215 GWh (7,970 TJ) Benmore Dam is the largest dam within the Waitaki power scheme, located in the Canterbury Region of New Zealand's South Island. There are eight other power stations in the Waitaki Power Scheme. The dam is the largest earth-fill (zoned embankment dam) water-retaining structure in New Zealand.
The Aviemore Dam is a dam on the Waitaki River in New Zealand. The dam is a composite dam, with an embankment section, and a concrete section. Built in the 1960s (and completed in 1968) [1] it impounds Lake Aviemore . Aviemore Dam is owned and operated by Meridian Energy, and its primary purpose is to power a hydroelectric power plant. [2]