I read an article on how countries around the world are addressing the international challenge of Global Warming. It made me wonder about NZ and, closer to home, Christchurch. What are we doing that is different? When I read the reports of the, quite frankly, imbecilic debates at the Council over … [Read more...]
New Zealand’s Green Grid
Nation-building is back! Guest post by Brendon Harré. Readers will know I have been a strong advocate for New Zealand building pumped hydro. For instance, I compiled a very detailed report earlier this year, including a very popular extended comment on the proposed Onslow pumped … [Read more...]
Pumped hydro
Guest post by Brendon Harré. Something that I have been following for a while now is pumped hydro. The idea is to build high altitude storage lakes so that water can be pumped up to them when there is a surplus of generation capacity and electricity prices are low. Then when electricity is in … [Read more...]