Huge renewable electricity jump ahead as rivals announce plans

Huge renewable electricity jump ahead as rivals announce plans
Genesis Energy CEO Marc England (right) at the new Waipipi windfarm, last October
Pattrick Smellie
Genesis Energy is assessing bids for new renewable power stations it hopes will be generating 1,350 Gigawatt hours of electricity by 2024.Those developments would match Contact Energy’s decision yesterday to proceed with the long-anticipated new geothermal power station at Tauhara, near Taupō, capable of producing 1,300 GWh of renewable electricity and scheduled for completion by mid-2023.That 2,650GWh increase represents a combined increase of 28.5 percent in the supply of New Zealand electricity from all sources in 2019, which Ministry...

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