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    Tiwai Point Tiwai Point lies at the entrance to Bluff Harbour on the southern coast of the South Island of New Zealand. A spit which extends from the...
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    Tiwai Point The Tiwai Point Aluminium Smelter is an aluminium smelter owned by Rio Tinto Group (79.36%) and the Sumitomo Group (20.64%), via a joint venture...
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    in 1971, Manapōuri was built primarily to supply electricity for the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter near Bluff, some 160 km (99 mi) to the southeast. The...
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    Bluff or Old Man Bluff. East across the entry channel from Bluff is Tiwai Point, home to New Zealand's only aluminium smelter and its wharf. Alumina...
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  • typical households, which consume on average 7 MW⋅h per year, to the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter, which consumed 5,000 GW⋅h in the 2017 year, representing...
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    800 votes. Following the announcement of the proposed closure of the Tiwai Point Aluminium Smelter, Ferris called for the government to put whānau first...
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  • Swiss firm Alusuisse. An aluminium smelter was already operating at Tiwai Point when the smelter at Aramoana was proposed. From its inception, the Otago...
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    shallow, a long wharf – the second longest in New Zealand (600m) after the Tiwai Point wharf at Bluff (1,500m) – was built in the 1920s to accommodate visiting...
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  • after suffering steering issues caused by a possible hydraulic leak. Tiwai Point Aluminium Smelter reaches an agreement with Meridian Energy on an electricity...
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  • specification. In 1996, on December 31, at two aluminum smelting plants at Tiwai Point, New Zealand and Bell Bay, Tasmania, Australia, each of the 660 computers...
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  • Smelters Ltd (aluminium smelter) New Zealand Aluminium Smelters Limited (Tiwai Point aluminium smelter) Queensland Alumina Limited (alumina refinery) Gladstone...
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  • Aluminium Delfzijl BV (Aldel) Shut down September 2022  New Zealand Tiwai Point 351,000 New Zealand Aluminium Smelters (NZAS) Rio Tinto 79.36%, Sumitomo...
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    and the expansion of the New Zealand Steel plant at Glenbrook. The Tiwai Point Aluminium Smelter, which opened in 1971, was also upgraded as part of...
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  • Moepuku Nugget Point Ōnawe Peninsula Otago Peninsula Pākererū Parakārehu Roys Peninsula Tautuku Peninsula Te Wehi-a-Te-Wera Tiwai Point Auckland Islands...
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    The Tiwai Point Aluminium Smelter, opened in 1971...
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    Station was constructed to supply electricity to the aluminium smelter at Tiwai Point. Since hydroelectric dams do not use fuel, power generation does not...
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  • Mercury Energy) to cities, towns and some major industrial users like the Tiwai Point Aluminium Smelter. Most of the electricity from the national grid is...
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    The 220  kV grid supplies major loads at Dunedin, Invercargill and Tiwai Point, from generation at Roxburgh and Manapouri. The 110  kV lines supply...
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    of the bay is close to Slope Point, the South Island's southernmost point, and the western end of the Catlins. Tiwai Point, with its aluminium smelter...
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  • 1881, when the SS Tararua struck Otara reef 13 km (8.1 mi) off Waipapa Point. Of the ship's 151 passengers, only 20 survived. This incident is the worst...
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    Myross Bush Ocean Beach Omaui Oreti Beach Otatara1 Sandy Point Seaward Bush Taramoa Tisbury Tiwai Point Underwood West Plains Waimatua Woodend 1 - major settlement...
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  • Island, Queensland, Australia 556 59.39 Tomago, NSW, Australia 520 51.5 Tiwai Point, NZ 330 79.36 Edea, Cameroon (Alucam [fr]) 100 46.7 Alma, Quebec 438...
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  • electricity per capita due to its cooler climate and the presence of the Tiwai Point Aluminium Smelter, which at a peak demand of 640 MW is New Zealand's...
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  • he worked on excavating archaeological sites at Tiwai Point, before the construction of the Tiwai Point Aluminium Smelter. He left the Otago Museum in...
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  • are directly connected to the grid, such as New Zealand Steel and the Tiwai Point Aluminium Smelter. There are four major generators: Contact Energy, Genesis...
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    to begin in 2020, but was delayed due to the possible closure of the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter. In February 2021 Meridian announced that construction...
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    coast of Foveaux Strait. This stretch of coast includes the peninsula of Tiwai Point, Awarua Bay, the Waituna Lagoon, and Toetoes Bay. The Mataura River is...
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    station at Manapouri which is owned by Meridian Energy and powers the Tiwai Point Aluminium Smelter. The Manapouri project generated much controversy from...
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  • 650,000 tonnes of steel, primarily flat rolled steel, per year. The Tiwai Point Aluminium Smelter, near Bluff in Southland, is New Zealand's only aluminum...
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    Station was constructed to supply electricity to the aluminium smelter at Tiwai Point. Low impact on climate change Since hydroelectric dams do not burn fossil...
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