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Energy New Zealand and Igneo Infrastructure Partners have energised the 202-MWp Tauhei solar farm in New Zealand, billed as the country’s largest

Solar South West, Lodestone Energy will be developing nine solar parks across New Zealand. The projects are estimated to generate 500 GWh of electricity annually,

a NZD 267 million loan to support a 168-MWdc solar project in Christchurch, New Zealand. The financing was underwritten by Westpack New Zealand, China

government's Future Fund, has actually seized Tilt's Australian subsidiaries. New Zealand-based power merchant Mercury NZ Ltd, on the other hand, has actually gotten

APAC and Far North Solar Farm (FNSF) have secured debt financing from Westpac New Zealand for 180 MWp of solar projects in New Zealand. This financing is part of

Oscar, a renewable energy-focused fund manager, has acquired New Zealand-based solar power developer Ranui Generation for approximately USD 135 million. Ranui

Group, said it has successfully commissioned the 38-MW Omeheu solar park in New Zealand. The project has entered commercial operation and will supply clean

New Zealand looks set to join the countries tapping into floating solar worldwide via a new, city-based scheme, sponsored by a utility duo. Electricity and water providers Vector Group and Watercare announced today they will deploy in Auckland what they claim is New Zealand’s first ever floating solar farm. The installation planned at the Rosedale wastewater treatment pond, to the northwest of New Zealand’s largest city, will reach “megawatt-scale” proportions, the utilities explained. Contacted by PV Tech this morning, neither firm had shed light on the project’s exact installed capacity figure – nor the installation's design – by the time this article was published. According to their statement, the 2,700-plus-panel plant will supply a nearby wastewater treatment plant, helping power the pumping and aeration of the bacteria that break down the waste. Watercare, the document goes on to say, will finance and accommodate the unit while Vector’s PowerSmart division will take care of deployment itself. New Zealand's 11GW solar potential Once up and running, the floating plant is designed to bring annual CO2 emission savings of 145 tonnes, equal to taking 66 cars off New Zealand’s roads. The project is being touted as the largest solar installation, floating or otherwise, to be proposed in the Oceanic island state to date. Nation-wide installed PV capacity was said by IRENA to sit at around 80MW last year. In an update in February this year, state-run grid agency Transpower said a market of 11GW is possible if PV was rolled out across all residential households. Speaking after the new floating scheme was unveiled, Vector Group's CEO Simon Mackenzie commented: “Even larger systems are already common overseas and with reports out of Australia of costs as low as 4-5c per kWh, when that scale arrives here we’ll see solar’s real potential to set a new cap on the wholesale market which over the past few days has been around double that." The Auckland scheme sees New Zealand add its name to an already budding global floating PV scene, currently growing from the 1.1GW market size recorded last year by the World Bank. Countries marking project milestones so far in 2019 include India (100MW), Singapore (50MW), Thailand (45MW), South Korea (25MW), Malawi (20MW) Portugal (4MW), the Seychelles (3.5-4MW) and Dubai.

bp and New Zealand utility Contact Energy said they have reached financial close on a new solar project in New Zealand with 150 MWac of capacity,

joint venture has secured financial close on a 150-megawatt solar project in New Zealand. The project marks a significant step in expanding renewable energy resources

it has divested a 271‑MWdc utility-scale solar photovoltaic project in New Zealand to Genesis Energy Ltd (NZE:GNE), the country’s power and gas utility.

storage system for a 100-MW/200-MWh project at the Huntly Power Station in New Zealand. This facility is set to enhance the country's largest thermal power complex

representing the Maori tribe Hokonui Runanga, to develop a solar project in New Zealand's Southland region. This initiative aims to establish a photovoltaic farm with

Solar has broken ground on a 13.5-megawatt utility-scale solar farm in New Zealand’s South Island, one of the company’s largest projects.

of Cambridge, in a global collaboration with specialists from Canada, Belgium, New Zealand, and also China, have actually discovered a new means to allow faster