Kawarau power options
PA Dunedin Investigations into harnessing the Kawarau River for electricity generation have produced five possible options. Investigations are continuing into others.
This year’s Energy Plan, due to be tabled in Parliament in August, will probably say if the Kawarau is to be developed for hydro power in the next 15 years. Development is tenta-
tively included in the present plan for commissioning in 1993. However, that plan was drawn up with the future of the Aramoana aluminium smelter still uncertain.
According to the “Otago Daily Times” the options are:—
• A dam 35.5 km from the confluence of the Clutha and Kawarau.
• A variation on the first option. • Two dams, the second being 22.6 km from the confluence and the downstream powerhouse, 13km from the confluence.
• One dam at 23.3 km, with a drop shaft and tunnel to a powerhouse at 12.5 km.
• One dam at 22.6 km and a drop shaft and tunnel to a powerhouse at 13km.
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