Meridian owns and operates seven hydro stations in New Zealand.
Our hydro stations have a combined installed capacity of 2388 megawatts.
This is about the same amount of electricity as 1.4 million average New Zealand homes use in a year.
Benmore is the country’s second largest hydro station after Manapouri, and New Zealand’s largest earth dam.
Find out more about Benmore »Meridian has four wind farms in New Zealand, and the Brooklyn wind turbine in Wellington. We also have one wind farm in Australia and a small wind farm on Ross Island near Antarctica.
Our New Zealand wind farms have a combined installed capacity of 356 megawatts.
This is about the same amount of electricity as 179,000 average New Zealand homes use in a year.
Te Uku is a 28-turbine wind farm located in Waikato, New Zealand. The wind farm can generate up to 64.4 megawatts of renewable energy.
Find out more about Te Uku »
Te Uku
Te Apiti
West Wind
White Hill
Mt Millar
Brooklyn
Ross Island
We helped build Maama Mai, Tonga's first solar farm, in alliance with Tonga Power and the governments of New Zealand and The Kingdom of Tonga.
Maama Mai is Tonga’s first solar farm, helping the kingdom reduce its reliance on carbon-intensive diesel.
Find out more about Maama Mai »Lake Benmore biodiversity sparked with predator-proof fence
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Meridian named as next SOE to be listed
16 May 2013
Meridian supports Raglan Backyard Bounty
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