Electricity generation

Contents

• 1. Overview
  • 1.1. Scenario adjustments
• 2. Existing plants
  • 2.1. Existing asset list
  • 2.2. Distributing base year generation using Electricity Authority data
  • 2.3. Capacity factor estimates
  • 2.4. Huntly Rankine units
  • 2.5. Distributed solar generation
  • 2.6. Adding generic plants
  • 2.7. Technical parameters from MBIE data
  • 2.8. Technical parameters by assumption
• 3. Future technologies
  • 3.1. Plant fixed install dates
  • 3.2. Learning curves
  • 3.3. Offshore wind
  • 3.4. Distributed rooftop solar
  • 3.5. Diesel peakers
  • 3.6. New fuels in existing assets
• 4. Transmission and distribution
  • 4.1. Transmission
  • 4.2. Distribution
  • 4.3. HVDC link
• 5. Availability curves
  • 5.1. Dispatchable
  • 5.2. Baseload
  • 5.3. Solar
  • 5.4. Hydro
  • 5.5. Wind
• 6. Time of use and meeting peak demand
  • 6.1. Energy and capacity constraints
• 7. Emission factors
  • 7.1. Thermal fuel emission factors
  • 7.2. Fugitive geothermal emission factors
• 8. Storage technologies
  • 8.1. Overview
  • 8.2. Key assumptions
  • 8.3. Existing investment
• 9. Appendix
  • 9.1. Acronyms