Our Solar / Environmental Footprint

When considering what our renewable energy solutions could look like, solar’s a simple solution. It plays a vital role in helping build New Zealand’s green reputation and is critical for a diversified electricity grid. The technical innovations we’ve adopted and incorporated into our farms have never been seen before in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Distributing our farms across the sun belt of New Zealand was intentional. Extensive research identified our first five sites as the best combination of solar resource and connectivity, with low community disturbance.

Our first five solar farms are low impact construction projects. By keeping this as a core value in our construction planning, we use as little steel, concrete, water, and heavy machinery as possible during the build.

Our farms are located on flat land surrounded by native planting, reducing visual impact, and boosting native biodiversity. The farms have no negative impact on the landscape or land, a win-win for the environment and renewable energy generation.

Iwi and local people from the community help with the construction of these farms.

We will multiply Aotearoa’s solar production by eight times. Once construction is complete, our farms will be emissions-free, use minimal water, and will help displace fossil fuel electricity generation across the motu.

Our Kaitaia and Edgecumbe solar farms will each be home to 60,000 solar panels, generating more than 100GWh of power a year. With the energy generated from our first five farms we can power a city the size of Hamilton.