Hydro

Maungapohatu is a very remote Maori community Te Urerewa National Park. There is no reticulated electricity supply and the distance to the grid is too far for grid connection to be feasible. In this report the Te Mapoupa Papakainga Trust considers the use of hydro electric power to lower electricity costs to the community by reducing diesel consumption for electricity generation.

The Haven Trust owns a farm at Tauranga that is bordered on one side by the Te Puna stream with a series of falls in the reach along the farm boundary. This report evaluates the technical and commercial feasibility of building a 15kW hydro generation plant on one of these falls to supply the farm’s requirements with surplus generation injected in to the local network.

This report looks at the factors influencing the social acceptance of renewable energy projects in New Zealand.  It was carried out for EECA by Janet Stephenson and Maria Ioannou of Otago University's Centre for the Study of Agriculture, Food and Environment.

This guide has been produced by the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority (EECA) in response to ongoing requests for information on micro-generation from the public. It is intended to provide guidance to both home and business owners who are interested in generating their own electricity, but need more information before going ahead. It is directed at the layperson who already has some basic knowledge of micro-generation.