Watercare Solar and BESS Infratec has won the contract for an Auckland project involving the installation of 400 solar panels – a job being touted as a major tipping point for solar energy in New Zealand. This project saw us build a 140kW array on top of one of Watercare’s water reservoirs. This array eliminates…
First Solar-Battery Project completed for Tuvalu In January 2020, Infratec completed the commissioning of a 73.5kW rooftop solar panel-battery storage project on the Tuvalu Fisheries Department building in Funafuti. The NZ Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade funded project was the first to combine solar generation and battery storage on the island. It is likely…
Tonga Outer Island Renewable Microgrids In March 2020, Infratec was awarded a NZ$15 million project to design, procure and build five solar PV-battery storage power plants on outer islands of the Kingdom of Tonga. Despite an enforced hiatus due the Covid-19 pandemic, the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai eruption and subsequent Tsunami, the five power plants and…