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New Zealand’s future energy centre, Ara Ake, has welcomed the release of the Emissions Reduction Plan and the first tranche of investments from the Climate Emergency Response Fund (CERF).

A Hawke’s Bay farm is taking part in a world-first pilot, launching today, which allows customers to contract with more than one electricity supplier at a single location.

An energy innovation testbed will be established in New Zealand, providing a hub for the demonstration of new technology that could help lower emissions.

The EVolocity programme, a programme helping generate students’ interest in the field of alternative and sustainable energy, returns to Taranaki in 2022.

Ara Ake is now a Toitū carbonzeroCertTM certified organisation in line with ISO-14064-1.

New Zealand’s national new energy centre, Ara Ake, and the regional polytechnic for Taranaki, Western Institute of Technology in Taranaki (WITT), have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to cooperate in the acceleration of renewable energy development in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Ara Ake, New Zealand’s national new energy centre, now have several companies on board for their multiple trading relationships (MTR) pilot, a world-first that provides individuals and businesses with more choice and flexibility when it comes to managing their electricity.

Auckland-based startup Emrod will begin a field demonstration in Taranaki of its world-leading, long-range wireless power transfer technology early next year. The project has been enabled by Ara Ake, New Zealand’s national new energy development centre

This November, Ara Ake, New Zealand’s new energy development centre and Taranaki regional development agency Venture Taranaki, are set to host the 2021 Offshore Future Energy Forum.

Ara Ake is now seeking participants to join their multiple trading relationships (MTR) pilot. A world-first pilot that offers individuals and businesses more choice and flexibility when it comes to managing their electricity.

South Island hydro generators Contact Energy, Meridian Energy and Genesis Energy have agreed to be involved in a collaborative research project, with the aim of improving their water management and forecasting in their South Island snow-fed catchments.

Ara Ake is pleased to announce a partnership with EcoLabs Centre of Innovation for Energy at Nanyang Technological University (Ecolabs) to facilitate the establishment of ‘real world’ technology demonstration sites, also known as ‘testbeds’, for validating innovative low emissions technology at scale in New Zealand.

Today Ara Ake hosted an online workshop to share learnings from the free tool launched in July, which helps long-distance heavy freight companies and the public sector better understand the options for decarbonising their road fleet.

New energy innovators will get the chance to showcase their cutting-edge ideas to Taranaki’s energy industry and investors as part of Ara Ake’s backing of the Orion Energy Accelerator competition.

New energy innovators will get the chance to showcase their cutting-edge ideas to Taranaki’s energy industry and investors as part of Ara Ake’s backing of the Orion Energy Accelerator competition.

New energy innovators will get the chance to showcase their cutting-edge ideas to Taranaki’s energy industry and investors as part of Ara Ake’s backing of the Orion Energy Accelerator competition.

Taranaki high school students are getting the chance to take part in an exciting new programme that encourages young people to design, build and compete electric vehicles, thanks to a partnership between Ara Ake, WITT and EVolocity...

The energy sector is getting the chance to access some of the world’s most innovative climate-positive start-ups and investors, thanks to a partnership between Ara Ake and US-based Elemental Excelerator...

A study released in December 2020 says there is still much work to be done to understand the full extent of the role that hydrogen and other low emission technologies will play in the path to decarbonising the long-distance heavy freight transport sector in Aotearoa...

Venture Taranaki’s National New Energy Development establishment project was successfully launched today by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Honourable Dr Megan Woods, Minister for Energy and Resources...