The Wairakei Power Station is a geothermal power station near the Wairakei Geothermal Field in New Zealand. Wairakei lies in the Taupō Volcanic Zone. The...
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pools, boiling mud pools, and the Wairakei Power Station, a major geothermal electric power generating station. The station was the second large-scale geothermal...
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gradually replace the Wairakei Power Station which will be phased out of production. With Te Mihi in operation, output from Wairakei is decreased by approximately...
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Visitors can also enjoy a variety of attractions, including the Wairakei Power Station, Huka Falls, and the Tongariro National Park. The name Taupō is...
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producer of geothermal electricity when its Wairakei station was commissioned. Wairakei was the first station to use flash steam technology. Over the past...
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Geothermal energy (category Power station technology)
sites. These sites continue to provide significant energy. The Wairakei power station was commissioned in November 1958, and it attained its peak generation...
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most important change in the region has been the building of the Wairakei Power Station (150 MW) in the 1950s, about 2 km. north of the field. This reduced...
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power stations with a current installed capacity of at least 10 MW. The Geysers in California, United States is the largest geothermal power station in...
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Ormat Technologies (category Electric power companies of Israel)
and supplied geothermal power systems to the Kawerau Power Station in New Zealand. Since then, it has built 13 geothermal power plants in that country...
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extend or infinitely use the fields as power sources. Geothermal energy use in New Zealand is strongly tied to Wairakei, where the first geothermal plant was...
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Coal/oil/gas Geothermal Hydro Wind Huntly Stratford Whirinaki Wairakei Nga Awa Purua Mokai Kawerau Manapouri Benmore Clyde Maraetai Roxburgh Tokaanu Rangipo...
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utilising geothermal steam from the Wairakei field, and is operated as part of the Wairakei geothermal system. The station has had an extraordinarily contentious...
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Electricity sector in New Zealand (redirect from Electrical power in New Zealand)
Zealand's geothermal power is generated north of Lake Taupō. Eight stations generate electricity here, including Wairakei Power Station, New Zealand's oldest...
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steamfield. A 33,000-volt line connects the power station to Transpower's Wairakei substation, injecting the station's electricity into both Unison's Taupō distribution...
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electricity directly into Transpower's 220 kV grid. The station connects to the single-circuit Wairakei to Whakamaru A line (WRK-WKM-A) at the substation to...
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3-kilometre (1.9 mi) long.: 223 Rangipō Power Station connects to the single-circuit 220 kV Bunnythorpe to Wairakei line (BPE-WRK-A) via a short 220 kV twin-circuit...
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started to develop, with forestry and the construction of the Wairakei geothermal power station. Taupo District covers 6,333.00 km2 (2,445.18 sq mi) and had...
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Renewable energy debate (section Solar power)
Broadcasting Company. Critics say geo-thermal power not renewable. 20 August 2008. Response of Wairakei geothermal reservoir to 40 years of production...
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Wairakei Power Station Geothermal Power Station, New Zealand 1953: Blyth A Power Station, Cambois, Northumberland, UK 1960s: Bell Bay Power Station,...
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was renovated between 2008 and 2010, with a grant from the nearby Wairakei Power Station. The renovations included wheelchair ramps and accessible toilets...
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National Grid (New Zealand) (category Electric power transmission systems in New Zealand)
the Auckland Harbour Bridge. The Wairakei ring is a set of transmission lines north of Lake Taupō linking Wairakei with Whakamaru. These lines connect...
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Contact Energy (category Electric power companies of New Zealand)
retailers (after Genesis Energy). Contact owns and operates five geothermal power stations near Taupō, natural-gas turbine facilities at Hamilton and at Stratford...
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Chateau Tongariro (section Power supply)
(14 October 2016). "NZ tourism boom lifts fortunes of Chateau Tongariro, Wairakei Resort". New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 9 August 2020. MacNamara, Kate (26...
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Wairakei Power Station is commissioned. It is New Zealand's first geothermal power station, and only the second large-scale geothermal power station in...
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Larderello (category Geothermal power stations in Italy)
geothermal electricity until 1958, when New Zealand built a plant of its own in Wairakei. In recent years concerns have been expressed about the sustainability...
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lake is assigned in terms of magma bodies, to the Poihipi volcano under Wairakei.: 16–17 As of 2024[update] it is possible that Taupō is in a state of...
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The majority of arsenic in the Waikato River comes from the Wairakei Geothermal Power Station. The amount of arsenic gradually declines as the river flows...
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Tūrangi 2,995 1,173 Acacia Bay 1,425 570 Wairakei-Aratiatia 606 207 see Aratiatia Power Station and Wairakei Maunganamu 411 150 Taupō East 6 3 Wharewaka...
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environments and by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV): A case study of the Wairakei – Tauhara geothermal field, Taupo, New Zealand". Renewable Energy. 86:...
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35944; 176.36972 (Waiotapu) Wairakei 38°37′36″S 176°06′13″E / 38.626686°S 176.103491°E / -38.626686; 176.103491 (Wairakei) Craters of the Moon (Karapiti)...
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