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Kawerau 1 Binary geothermal power plant — Power plant · GeothermalTOPP2 geothermal power plant -- — Under construction · Geothermal · New Zealand · 49 MW · 2.3 km away
  • Clean firm
  • Under construction
  • Operating
  • 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW

Kawerau 1 Binary geothermal power plant

Power plant · Geothermal

Key facts

Power plant · Geothermal Operating
Capacity
Capacity: sourceGlobal Energy Monitor — Global Integrated Power Tracker (unit-level power plants, eight technologies, all statuses) · Open license, with creditMW
Commissioned
1989
Location
New Zealand

Details

Who’s behind it

Owner
Eastland Generation, Mercury NZ Ltd

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Technology
Geothermal source: “geothermal / binary cycle”
Age
37 years since 1989
Units
3
1 attribute from Global Energy Monitor — Global Integrated Power Tracker (unit-level power plants, eight technologies, all statuses)
AttributeValue
Gem
Owners
Name
Eastland Generation
Gem entity id
E100001013885
Name
Mercury NZ Ltd
Gem entity id
E100000186038
Unit ids
G100001048512, G100001048513, G100001048515
Location id
L100001043029
Unit statuses
Operating
3
Location accuracy
exact

Ownership

2 companies2
CompanyRoleSource
Eastland Generation Owner GEM
Mercury NZ Ltd Owner GEM

Timeline

  • In service · GEM

Sources

2 sources

Sources GEM · Global Energy Monitor — Global Integrated Power Tracker (unit-level power plants, eight technologies, all statuses)

Sources

  • GEMOpen license, with credit · retrieved Oct 26, 2026Global Integrated Power Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, September 2026 release (https://globalenergymonitor.org/projects/global-integrated-power-tracker), CC BY 4.0. Modified by Inframation: TransitionZero-sourced rows removed; statuses and technologies mapped to Inframation's vocabulary; figures aggregated. Copyright © Global Energy Monitor. Global Integrated Power Tracker, September 2026 release. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
  • Global Energy Monitor — Global Integrated Power Tracker (unit-level power plants, eight technologies, all statuses)

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Around this plant

Nearby

within 25 km
ProjectKindAwayMW
TOPP2 geothermal power plant -- Under construction Geothermal 2.3 km 49

Sources GEM

Sources

  • GEMOpen license, with credit · retrieved Oct 26, 2026Global Integrated Power Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, September 2026 release (https://globalenergymonitor.org/projects/global-integrated-power-tracker), CC BY 4.0. Modified by Inframation: TransitionZero-sourced rows removed; statuses and technologies mapped to Inframation's vocabulary; figures aggregated. Copyright © Global Energy Monitor. Global Integrated Power Tracker, September 2026 release. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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