Blog

Welcome to MainPower’s local generation blog. I hope this blog will provide a forum for people to discuss our local generation and energy efficiency activities and to ask any associated questions. Blogging’s new to me and the team and we’re not sure what response we’ll get, but we view this as another “venue” for discussing our generation plans with our community and other stakeholders. My colleagues and I will regularly update the blog with progress on our generation activities including plans to build a wind farm at Mt Cass.

We’ll also post comments on relevant associated issues like developments in renewable energy and wind farms, both in New Zealand and internationally. I hope you will do the same.

We look forward to blogging with you!

Todd Mead
Generation Development Manager

MainPower's solar PV array, on its Rangiora office

Which turbine is the most efficient?

Posted by Andrew Hurley, 11 comments, on the 7th September 2007

We have heard questions about turbine efficiency a few times. Usually it is in the context of a discussion over choice of turbines (eg - which of your turbine options is the most efficient?) so I'll talk about that today.

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Why should we choose a turbine now?

Posted by Andrew Hurley, 8 comments, on the 13th August 2007

You have heard (see 1 August post) why we don't intend to pick a turbine before we head into a resource consent - but to complete the picture we should also talk about why we would want, or need to.

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Why we won't choose a turbine (yet)

Posted by Andrew Hurley, 2 comments, on the 1st August 2007

Any time we have talked about the Mount Cass Wind Farm this year we have discussed a range of turbine types and sizes as being possible for the site. This has lead to some people asking us why we can't make up our mind and just pick one.

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