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New Zealand’s energy innovation centre
Turning innovative energy ideas into reality
Ara Ake exists to advance New Zealand’s energy sector toward a sustainable future. We support innovators with resources, connections and funding to help bring their technologies to market.
Featured project
Taranaki Geoheat Discovery Challenge
Could petroleum wells across Taranaki deliver geothermal heat, rather than being plugged and left behind? This project explores the feasibility, and how legacy petroleum data could establish a regional geoheat economy.
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New project to explore whether Taranaki's old petroleum wells could heat its energy future
Ara Ake is leading and funding a project exploring whether hundreds of suspended and shut-in petroleum wells in the Taranaki region could be repurposed as practical, cost-effective and low-emission heat sources for industry, buildings and communities, before they are permanently abandoned.
