Tauhara commissioning progress update
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28
th
March 2024
Tauhara commissioning progress update
Commissioning works at Contact’s Tauhara geothermal plant have been progressing well,
with remedial work to the steam separation plant successfully completed.
Power station commissioning activities are expected to commence shortly, with first
synchronisation to the system occurring in late April / early May 2024 at the earliest. After
completion of power station testing activities, the 30-day reliability run required to support
commercial operations could begin in late May 2024.
Contact maintains its expectation that Tauhara will be online at an initial capacity of at least
152MW in Q3 2024 and notes that a range of timing outcomes within the quarter remain
possible. This reflects the potential discovery of latent commissioning issues in the next
stage of power station testing, as can be expected during commissioning. Within that
context, this progress announcement seeks to highlight the possibility that Tauhara could be
online for winter 2024.
The project team continues to work tirelessly to accelerate the Tauhara commissioning
timeline to deliver this worldclass geothermal project. Seeing Tauhara online will be a key
milestone in the delivery of Contact26, Contact’s strategy to lead the decarbonisation of New
Zealand.
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