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This is a list of power stations in New Zealand.
The list is not exhaustive – only power stations over 0.5 MW and significant power stations below 0.5 MW are listed.
Power plants in New Zealand have different generating roles – for baseload, intermediate or peaking.
''Identification of Potential Hydroelectric Resources''
- a report prepared for the Ministry of Economic Development in January 2004 {{Power stations, state=expanded
This is a list of power stations in New Zealand.
The list is not exhaustive – only power stations over 0.5 MW and significant power stations below 0.5 MW are listed.
Power plants in New Zealand have different generating roles – for baseload, intermediate or peaking. Baseload
The base load (also baseload) is the minimum level of demand on an electrical grid over a span of time, for example, one week. This demand can be met by unvarying power plants, dispatchable generation, or by a collection of smaller intermittent e ...
generators are those that run continuously (except for maintenance), and include all geothermal and run-of-the-river hydroelectric plants, which must 'use it or lose it'. Intermediate generators are load-following power plants. Peaking power plant
Peaking power plants, also known as peaker plants, and occasionally just "peakers", are power plants that generally run only when there is a high demand, known as peak demand, for electricity. Because they supply power only occasionally, the powe ...
s generate only for minutes or hours at a time, during the sharpest peaks in electricity demand.
Bioenergy
Geothermal
Hydroelectric
Source:Decommissioned hydroelectric
Heritage hydroelectric
Fossil-fuel thermal
Source:Wind
Sources:Solar
Grid battery storage
Proposed power stations
Source:See also
*Energy in New Zealand
Despite abundant natural resources and a relatively small population, New Zealand is a net importer of energy, in the form of petroleum products. The ratio of non-renewable and renewable energy sources was fairly consistent from 1975 to 2008, w ...
*Electricity sector in New Zealand
The electricity sector in New Zealand uses mainly renewable energy, such as hydropower, geothermal power and increasingly wind energy. , 82% of electricity is generated from renewable sources, making New Zealand one of the countries with the lo ...
*List of New Zealand spans
This is a list of remarkable overhead powerline spans within New Zealand.
See also
* List of power stations in New Zealand
References
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Powerline river crossings
Spans
Spans ...
*New Zealand electricity market
The New Zealand electricity market (NZEM) is a decentralised electricity market regulated by the Electricity Industry Participation Code administered by the Electricity Authority (EA). The authority was established in November 2010 to replace t ...
References
Further reading
* *External links
''Identification of Potential Hydroelectric Resources''
- a report prepared for the Ministry of Economic Development in January 2004 {{Power stations, state=expanded
New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island coun ...
Power stations in New Zealand