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= New Zealand Energy Production, Generation and Use =

Coal
Coal for electricity for distribution, 1,517,000 million tonnes (almost all imported).

Gas
Mostly from off-shore Taranaki (no new consession licences to be issued)

Hydrogen (none known)
Subject to government funded study of the viability of conversion ex natural gas)

Coal
Process and industrial heat and electricity generation

Coal and Gas (cogeneration)
Electricity generation

Gas
Process and omestic heat

Fuel oil
Mostly marine transport

Diesel
Mostly heavy land transport, earthmoving, agriculture and growing use by light motor vehicles.

Naptha
Aviation

Hydro, dam
Most of New Zealand's electricity

Hydro, run of the river
Amethyst, Hari Hari, Hohonu Range via Poerua ... . Waitaha, abanndoned (public pressure, Minister for Conservation, grounds wilderness sited concrete structures visible to c. < 120 day visitors per annum.

Hydro, pumped
Subject to government funded study of the viability of expansion of lake Onlsow on the Lamamoor Range, Otago)

Geothermal, dry steam
Wairaki and ...

Geothermal, binary cycle
? abandoned consideration of potential of steep heat gradient proximate to the Alpine Fault

Biomass, pellets
Avaialble in domestic size quatities for home heating, Some in use for dairy product processing,

Waste, methane by decompostion
? some extraction from abandoned landfill waste

Waste, pyrolosis
Serious proposals abandoned due to adverse public pressure