Tuhinga o mua Meridian, i whakaputaina i te 28 o Oketopa 2025
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Hanganga kua tiimata i runga i tetahi o nga paamu solar nui rawa atu me te tauwhiro o Aotearoa, ka hei taapiri utu nui Tuhinga o mua te whenua emahi kauhau pūnaha me te Te Tai Tokerau Te kaha kaha o Te Taitokerau.
Meridian GM Development Guy Waipara ta te 130MW Ruakākā Solar Farm - Ko Meridian te tuatahi i Aotearoa, - is he tino pai toha mo te kamupene he tokomaha teihana wai me te paamu haus.
“Tenei kaupapa's a nui mahi, a itka whakarato a nui whakanui mo Te Tai Tokerau Te Taitokerau ma te whakanui ake i te nui o te hiko e mahia ana i roto i te rohe, " ta Guy Waipara.
"As atu reanga whakahou hou ano he hau me te hiko o te ra Kei te hanga, ka ia whakamarama te tono mo te whenua nga roto wai ki te whakaputa mana puta noa i te tau a whakaiti te whakawhirinaki ki te wahie wera utu nuis rite coal me te hau. "
Me te 250,000 nga panui solar e kapi ana i tetahi waahi te rahi o nga papa whutupaoro 170, Ruakākā Ka taea e Solar Farm te whakaputa hiko ki runga ki te 230GWh ia tau – ka nui te hiko ki te haurua o nga kaainga o Te Taitokerau. I te taha o te kamupene 100MW Ruakākā Pūnaha Pupuri Pūhiko Pūhiko (BESS), i tukuna i te timatanga o tenei tau, te reira pukas te Ruakākā Pūngao Park - he ariā ko Meridian whakamahere mo te tahi atu marama kaupapa. Ma te waatea o te pākahiko ka taea te penapena hiko mo nga waa tono nui tauturu maeneene i nga tihi o te hiahia.
Ko te $ 227m kaupapa he he aronga toiturutanga kaha. Mneke atu i te 79,000 tone o te tukunga waro hangahanga ka waiho tino whakawetot, a Ka hangaia e Meridian he hou rima heketea repo, whakarei wha heketea o te repo o naianei, ka oti te 22 heketea o te whakato whakaora hei wahanga o te kaupapa. Ko nga mahi a te rohe kei te noho matua.
"E mohio ana matou he mea nui te noho hoa noho pai me te mahi i a maatau mahi mo te taiao. Na kotahi te reira mahi, matou're whakamahere ki te whakaatu pehea mahi ahuwhenua me te hiko hoa-te tīariari mā te hipi te kai i waenganui i nga panui,” ta Guy Waipara.
“Ka waiho tenei kaupapa hei panuitanga rawe mo te taapiri o te ra ki to Aotearoa tuku pūngao mā te whakamahi i te nuinga o ā mātou rawa māori whakamiharo.”
Changanga me nga mahi me nga kirimana tiaki kua whakawhiwhia ki te tohunga mo te kaha whakahou Ethical Power.
"Ahakoa koinei te waahi tuatahi a Meridian, Ethical Power 15 tau te wheako ki te tuku otinga PV solar ki te whakarite i te hua kounga teitei," e kii ana Matt Rowe, Ethical Power Kaiwhakahaere Whakahaere o Aotearoa.
"He aha te mea motuhake o tenei kaupapa ko o tatou uara tiritiri mo te oranga tonutanga, te tiaki i te taiao, me te hapori ka awhina i a tatou ki te hanga kaupapa whakahirahira me te whai hua pai huri noa. Ruakākā Ka tu a Solar Farm hei kaupapa rangatira mo nga mea e rua Ethical Power me Meridian, me te tumanako, mo Aotearoa whanui."
Freanga tuatahi is e tumanakohia ana hei te mutunga o te tau 2026 me te whakatipuranga katoa i te timatanga o te tau 2027. Ko te roanga o te oranga o te paamu mo te 35 tau, katahi ka hangarua, ka whakamahia ano nga panui.
Neke atu i te $1 piriona te haumi i roto i nga tau e rima kua taha ake nei, kei te whakangaohia e Meridian tetahi atu $2 piriona mo nga tau e toru e whai ake nei.. enei kaupapa ko te 90MW Mt Munro Wind Farm tata Eketāhuna, he mahi tahi 50-50 me Nova Energy Ltd mo te 400MW Te Rahui Pāmu Solar i Rangitāiki, he 100MW BESS kei roto Manawatū, me te Te Rere Te kaupapa whakakaha ake i te Paamu Hau Hau, kei roto hoki Manawatū.