The consents allow for the construction of up to 83 wind turbines or 240MW of capacity. Tilt Renewables was demerged from Trustpower in 2016. This week the Climate Change Commission’s roadmap for reducing emissions recommended expanding renewable generation so that 95 per cent of New Zealand’s power generation was renewable. The Commission’s report,
Inaia tonu nei: a low-emissions-future-for-Aotearoa, says long-term scenarios showed that renewable wind and solar generation would have to rapidly expand in the 2030s and beyond to meet increased electricity demand as electric vehicles are widely adopted. In Southland, Meridian Energy operates the White Hill Wind Farm near Mossburn, where 29 wind turbines can generate up to 58 megawatts of electricity, enough each year for about 22,000 average New Zealand homes.
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Drone footage shows full extent of the damage to the Waiho Bridge, near Franz Josef on the West Coast, in March 2019.
New maps that show the precise makeup of the West Coast, warts and all, have been released. They can be used for everything from farming to engineering. KEITH LYNCH reports. They are called LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) maps, and they can be used to create a picture of the “bare” earth. In 2018, a Government initiative made millions of dollars available to better map regional New Zealand. The first batch of maps, showing the West Coast, has now been released. More are expected to follow soon. This is what is going on.