The New Zealand Renewable Energy resources Map is to help visualise what potential renewable energy resources in New Zealand are available to harness.

Solar Action - The New Zealand Renewable Energy Society Incorporated, is an exclusively renewable energy advocacy group with a focus on sustainable energy use and development. SolarAction promotes a renewably powered New Zealand that is less reliant on non-renewable energy sources.

The basic objective of the Society is to bring together architects, engineers, scientists and enthusiasts who support solar energy technologies for the following purposes:

• providing educational materials and services on solar energy developments freely to the general public of New Zealand;
• promoting scientific, social and economic development through the environmentally sound utilisation of solar energy;
• generating and disseminating information on current and future solar energy developments to members and potential members;
• helping consumers make sustainable energy decisions, including transport choices, and advocating sustainable energy use and development in industry and the commercial sector;
• informing local and central Government policy on solar energy technologies and monitoring the outcomes of decisions and directions taken within the New Zealand energy scene;
• acting as the New Zealand voice within the international renewable energy community through international linkages with organizations such as ISES, thus providing an international perspective on solar energy developments;
• encouraging the use of renewable energy everywhere, through appropriate technology, scientific excellence, social responsibility, and communication.
• The society is established and maintained exclusively for charitable purposes, as outlined above.
• The society is not for the private profit of any individual.

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Disclaimer

The Data Providers have prepared these data exercising all reasonable skill and care. Nevertheless, the Data Providers can give no warranty that the data supplied are free from errors, ommissions or other inaccuracies. Users of the data will release the Data Providers from all liability whether in contract, tort (including negligence), equity, or any other basis for any errors, ommissions or inaccuracies of the data, or from all liability, whether direct, indirect or consequential, arising out of the provision of this data.

The provision of the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 will not apply to this data since it has beem acquired for the purpose of a business.

Data from widely spaced sites were used in research-based spatial models to estimate surfaces intended for use at 1:250,000. Data mapped at this scale will not show variation that occurs at larger scales.

Potential Wind Power Density

Averaged data can provide a misleading interpretation of variability. This image is based on Vesta's V63 turbine curve with 4.8m/s cut in velocity. Assuming Raleigh distribution around the mean.

Map & Data Source Credits

Data has been sourced from a number of Data Providers including, but not limited to: NIWA, Eagle Technology Limited, Land Information New Zealand (LINZ), Ministry for the Environment and Transpower. Copyright ©. All Rights Reserved.

Potential Hydro Power by Catchment

Map prepared February 2008 by Roddy Henderson and James Sturman (NIWA).

Potential Solar Power Density - Global Irradiance Tilted to Degrees of Latitude

Map prepared November 2007 by Ben Liley, Andrew Tait and James Sturman (NIWA).

Potential Wind Power Density

Map prepared March 2008 by Andrew Tait, Rilke de Vos and James Sturman (NIWA).

Potential purpose grown biomass production areas (1.8 million hectare case)

Map prepared June 2009 by Barbara Hock, Peter Hall (SCION) and James Sturman (NIWA).

Land Cover Database version 2 (LCDB2)

Ministry for the Environment (MfE). This database (LCDB2) is a thematic classification of 43 land cover and land use classes. The polygon features contain a code and boundary representing the land cover type for the period Summer 1996 / 97 and Summer 2001 / 02. Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand

Hill Shade Model

100m hillshade from Geographx, adapted by seagull. LICENSE: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand

Topographic Maps

Images sourced from NZTopo database, Crown Copyright Reserved.
The tiles for the topographical maps are supplied by nztopomaps.com

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