[Imc-aotearoa-waikato] Engineers for Social Responsibility Public Meeting

[Danyl Strype]

Kia ora koutou,

This looks interesting, apologies for the short notice. Does
anyone mind if Jim Holdom sends notices like this to the
list since we aren't using it for much at the moment?

RnB,
Strypey

Forwarded Message:

IEE Auckland Branch & ESR Waikato Branch Joint Public
Meeting

 

Future power supply: 

New Zealand at a crossroad

A panel discussion with

 

Mike Underhill  &  Bryan Leyland

 

7.00 pm, Thursday 23rd September 2004

 

for refreshments in the Waikato Management School Lecture
Block,

  Hillcrest Rd, Hamilton

Presentations begin at 7.30 pm in MSB 1.05

(Parking behind Gate 7 to Waikato University in Hillcrest
Rd)

 

New Zealand is at a crossroad with respect to future power
supply.  Over the next 20 years we need 5,500 MW of new
generation according to one reliable source. If so, we must
build 75% of all the capacity we have built in the last 100
years. The primary problem is that generators cannot get at
the fuel - water, coal, gas, nuclear, geothermal, etc. that
they need.  The RMA and Kyoto are the biggest barriers. 
But even if they could be overcome, most of our best
resources are on the wrong side of transmission
constraints.  We need to know what energy resources we
have, their cost, environmental impact and implications for
transmission.  Then we need a long-term plan that gives us
a secure supply at a predictable price.

 

Mike Underhill is Chief Executive of WEL Networks Ltd. and
Ex-Chairman of EECA, and

Bryan Leyland is a Power Consultant and Director of Leyland
Consultants Ltd. 

 

All Welcome

 

Contacts:  Max Thomson mgthomson at iee.org or Norm Stannard
mqs at wave.co.nz 

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