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Full steam ahead for power station
Mercury has officially opened its $220 million expansion project at its Ngā Tamariki Geothermal Station near Taupō.
Taupō’s hydrogen future
Taupō-based Halcyon Power Ltd – the country’s first megawatt scale green hydrogen production company – will play a substantial role at this year’s H2 2 Zero Summit in Wellington, on May 28-29.
Steam brings business
A new factory in Taupō is using excess heat from geothermal electricity generation to help solve the problem of nitrogen overuse on farms.
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