New Developments

An electrified economy will require more renewable generation than ever before!

Manawa Energy has several new large-scale wind and solar developments in the pipeline to help meet the energy needs of an electrified, low-emissions Aotearoa New Zealand.

Our approach to new developments

We are proven renewable developers, as the pioneers of wind generation development in Aotearoa New Zealand.

As Trustpower, we successfully developed wind farms at Tararua and Mahinerangi in New Zealand (197 MW capacity) and Snowtown 1&2 in Australia (370 MW capacity), between 1999 and 2014.

Our focus is firmly on the future and playing our part in supporting a thriving, low-emissions, electrified economy for Aotearoa New Zealand. We are committed to working collaboratively with landowners, mana whenua, businesses and communities through all stages of the projects.

Unlike other developers, Manawa Energy will own and operate all of our new generation developments so you can be assured of a long-term partner that is committed to your community.

More information on what goes into developing new generation projects can be found below:

Developing a solar farm

Developing a wind farm

Partner with us

We are flexible in our approach to funding and developing new generation projects. We will develop some projects ourselves and we will look for commercially attractive partnership opportunities that can provide faster development timelines and risk sharing for other projects.

If you have a new renewables project that you would like to discuss with us, we would love to hear from you.

Our New Developments Team can be reached here.


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