Tuesday, 19 April 2022

Ohaaki Power Station


One place B was eager to visit while we were in Taupo last year is Ohaaki Power Station just outside of town. It's a geothermal powered and operated by Contact Energy and it is the only one in the country to have a 105m high natural draft cooling tower.

Edited to add: We will be travelling to the South Island this week for our move so I may not be around until maybe Saturday or Sunday so apart from my posts being automatically set I will see you all then.

Linking up with Through my lens, Travel Tuesday, Tuesday Treasures, My corner of the world and Wordless Wednesday

11 comments:

NCSue said...

Interesting - were you able to get any closer to learn more about it?
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Bill said...

Nice photo composition!

magiceye said...

Enjoy your trip!

Veronica Lee said...

Interesting capture, Amy.

Happy Tuesday!

Tom said...

...at first glance I thought that was cooling tower for a nuclear power plant. It's wonderful to the geothermal engery.

local alien said...

Have a great move! It's a big change. Take loads of photos!!

Iris Flavia said...

Some subject. I payed way too much for a breadroll and Ingo said it needs to get more expensive, just like the energy we rely on to.
Have a good and safe trip. Fun, too!

At Home In New Zealand said...

Thanks Amy, I have often wondered exactly what that tower was used for and now I know.
Hope your trip south goes well and the weather is kind to you. Take care, Mxx

William Kendall said...

Well composed.

Einari Sinappi said...

That´s one big #ss cooling tower. Don´t have them in Finland I believe. We have 4 nuclear power plants and 5th on it´s way. But they lack this feature.

betty-NZ said...

Thanks for sharing your link at My Corner of the World this week!

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