2025
Contact’s new geothermal power station Tauhara is one of the most significant infrastructure projects of recent times. It is a $924million investment into renewable energy which will bolster the country’s energy supply by providing long-term generation of 174MW of electricity – around 3.5 percent of the country’s electricity and enough to power 200,000 homes. A world-class asset, the power station was developed through a people-centric approach with the 4000-strong team including contractor partners; tangata whenua and local community. Tauhara has forged a reliable long-term renewable energy legacy for New Zealand.