Power Stations
Contact owns and operates (unless otherwise stated) the following power stations:
| Name | Fuel | Type | Location | Capacity (MW) |
Annual Average Generation (GWh) |
Commissioned | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Zealand stations | |||||||
| Clyde | Hydroelectric | Conventional | Clyde, Otago | 432 | 2050 | 1992 | |
| Ohaaki | Geothermal | Flash steam | Ohaaki, Waikato | 70 | 300 | 1989 | |
| Otahuhu B | Gas | Combined-cycle turbine | Otahuhu, Auckland | 380 | 2380 | 2000 | |
| Poihipi | Geothermal | Flash steam | Wairakei, Waikato | 55 | 350 | 1996 | |
| Roxburgh | Hydroelectric | Conventional | Roxburgh, Otago | 320 | 1610 | 1956-1962 | |
| Stratford | Gas | Open-cycle / Combined-cycle turbine | Stratford, Taranaki | 585 | 3350 | 1998, 2010 | |
| Te Huka | Geothermal | Binary cycle | Taupo | 23 | 2010 | ||
| Te Rapa | Gas | Open-cycle turbine Cogeneration |
Te Rapa, Waikato | 44 | 200 | 2000 | |
| Wairakei | Geothermal | Flash steam / Binary cycle | Wairakei, Waikato | 161 | 1310 | 1958, 2005 | |
| Whirinaki | Diesel | Open-cycle turbine | Whirinaki, Hawke's Bay | 155 | 9 | 2004 | |
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