Power Stations
Wind Manapouri Benmore Aviemore Ohau A Ohau B Ohau C Waitaki Te Apiti Te Uku West Wind White Hill Location of power stations owned and operated by Meridian Energy in New Zealand.Meridian Energy owns and operates seven hydroelectric power stations in the South Island - six on the Waitaki River and at Manapouri. It also owns and operates six wind farms in New Zealand, Australia and Antarctica, and a single turbine in Brooklyn, Wellington. In total, Meridian has a total installed capacity of 2,639 MW in New Zealand and 71 MW overseas.
In addition, Meridian also operates some industrial combined heat and power stations in New Zealand, under its subsidiary Energy for Industry.
| Name | Type | Location | No. turbines | Capacity (MW) | Annual generation (average GWh) |
Commissioned | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Zealand stations | |||||||
| Aviemore | Hydroelectric | Waitaki River | 4 | 220 | 942 | 1968 | |
| Benmore | Hydroelectric | Waitaki River | 6 | 540 | 2215 | 1965 | |
| Manapouri | Hydroelectric | Lake Manapouri, Fiordland National Park | 7 | 800 | 4800 | 1971 | |
| Ohau A | Hydroelectric | Waitaki River | 4 | 264 | 1140 | 1979 | |
| Ohau B | Hydroelectric | Waitaki River | 4 | 212 | 958 | 1984 | |
| Ohau C | Hydroelectric | Waitaki River | 4 | 212 | 958 | 1985 | |
| Te Āpiti | Wind | Ruahine Ranges | 55 | 91 | 320 | 2004 | |
| Te Uku | Wind | near Raglan, Waikato | 28 | 64.4 | 2011 | ||
| Waitaki | Hydroelectric | Waitaki River | 6 | 90 | 496 | 1934 | |
| Wellington Wind Turbine | Wind | Brooklyn, Wellington | 1 | 0.23 | 1 | 1993 | |
| West Wind | Wind | Makara, west of Wellington | 62 | 143 | 600 | 2009 | |
| White Hill | Wind | near Mossburn, Southland | 29 | 58 | 230 | 2007 | |
| Overseas stations | |||||||
| Ross Island Wind Energy | Wind | Ross Island, Antarctica | 3 | 1 | 2010 | Supplies Scott Base and McMurdo Station | |
| Mt Millar | Wind | southwest of Whyalla, South Australia | 35 | 70 | |||
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