Mercury NZ

It’s International Control Room Week – a perfect time to celebrate our incredible colleagues across the country whose mahi keeps the lights on and power flowing to New Zealand homes and businesses. 🌟 In August this year we opened our new, custom-designed Central Control Room at the Ngā Awa Pūrua geothermal power station which delivers remote operations capability for our Ngā Awa Pūrua, Rotokawa and Ngā Tamariki geothermal sites. Designed and delivered in partnership with Honeywell, our operators, engineers, and maintainers played a crucial role in shaping the technical and spatial design requirements. Their insights were invaluable, especially during the critical review of Geothermal Controller tasks, ensuring we meet the complexities of both normal operations and emergency scenarios. Our Centralised Operations Team now enjoys a world-class workspace, complete with advanced Human Machine Interface (HMI) screens that allow seamless monitoring of all sites from one central control desk. The ergonomic design, lighting, and sound systems are top-notch, creating an environment that fosters efficiency and well-being The Central Control Room is a massive achievement for Mercury, that delivers on our strategic objectives by unleashing our people’s full potential in a modern and safe environment – enabling them to deliver operational efficiency and maximise the performance of our assets.

🌟A big shout out to our project team working on the addition of a fifth generating unit at our Ngā Tamariki geothermal station. On site, the Air Cooler Condenser structure is rising, and our current focus is on prepping the foundations for the major equipment (heat exchangers, turbine, feed pumps, and more) which set sail 🚢 in September and is expected to arrive in Tauranga by the end of November. The new transformer is being manufactured and will be shipped from Indonesia at the end of December In the meantime, our sub-contractors, Connell Contractors, are hard at work on its foundations, while Ventia is diligently installing the T3 Protection and Revenue Metering Panel and preparing to lay the cable tray in the ducting for the 11kV connection. 👷🚧 A big thanks to Seays Earthmovers, who have already completed 90% of the cable ducting that will connect the new unit to Bay 3.👷♂️    Once operational this new unit will boost renewable energy generated at the station by 46MW, enough power for around 55,000 households annually 🌍💡

Have a read of this interview with our Executive GM Sustainability Lucie Drummond - as part of Powrsuit's Partner Spotlight series. https://lnkd.in/gd__GuaW

We’re proud to support the communities where we generate electricity and where many of our team members live and work. Our community funds are designed to back local groups and their projects, helping to care for people, places, and the future. We have community funds for Taupō, Kawerau, Manawatū, Tauranga, Oamaru, Kaiwera Downs (near Gore) and Waipipi (between Waverly and Patea). Each fund opens for applications at different times of the year. For instance, applications for the Waipipi wind farm fund and the Manawatū fund are open now, while Oamaru and Tauranga funds will open on November 1st. Discover more about each fund, including past grant recipients, on our website here: https://lnkd.in/gMpbFDGA

🌟 A massive thanks to the team at Hiringa Energy who took our Chief Executive, Stewart Hamilton and Executive GM Sustainability, Lucie Drummond, on a tour of their Wiri site yesterday. Lucie shared, “Seeing green hydrogen production up close, and how it’s already powering trucks and buses, highlighted the vital role this technology will play in Aotearoa’s transition to clean energy. "Electrification and hydrogen for transport are just two of the pieces we need for a system-wide approach to ensure Aotearoa’s energy transition is built for the future”. 🌏 🚌

Registration for our first ever WING New Zealand AGM is now live! The meeting will be held online via Teams on October 24th 4pm NZST. Register for the AGM at the link below: https://lnkd.in/gGaQbrse   The agenda for this AGM is: - 2023/2024 Annual Report - 2023/2024 Finance Report - Board Introductions  - Motion to approve Constitution  - Motion to Incorporate - Approval of 2024/2025 Financial Budget - General Business - Closing Make sure you are signed up as a WING NZ Chapter Member in order to attend our AGM! This AGM has to do with our legal status within New Zealand, so is not relevant to other chapters. If you work in NZ, you can join our chapter: https://lnkd.in/g63spc6 The constitution has been shared in an email that went out to our chapter’s members yesterday. Please review this before the meeting, we welcome any feedback up until 5 working days prior to the AGM. We are looking forward to seeing you all there! #geothermal #womeningeothermal

Earlier this month, we proudly supported the AIMS Games in Tauranga, where 12,925 intermediate-aged children from 397 schools came together for a week of exciting sporting competition. 🏀 🎾 ⚾ We created the Mercury Wonderful Energy Awards to celebrate outstanding attitudes and positive energy throughout the event. Students could be nominated by their peers, coaches, and supporters, with five winners announced each day of the tournament.  🎖 🏆 Check out the fill list of winners here:  https://lnkd.in/gp4v3nGN We also loved this heartwarming story about one of our very deserving winners: https://lnkd.in/gJUu4Qzx

We had a fantastic time connecting with shareholders at our Annual Shareholders' Meeting yesterday. Our Chair Scott St John, Chief Executive Stewart Hamilton and executives spoke to our business performance in the context of supporting the electrification opportunity ahead for Aotearoa New Zealand, and tangible action being taken in our business and by the sector to help position for the future. This includes having about $1 billion investment in more renewable generation for New Zealand in the works right now, with both the $220 million expansion of the Ngā Tamariki geothermal station and the $486 million expansion of the Kaiwera Downs wind farm underway. You can find all the materials from the meeting, including a replay here: https://lnkd.in/gVsKVeV2 📸 Kaiwera Downs wind farm

🌟 A massive shout-out to our incredible project team at the Ngā Tamariki geothermal power station. Thanks to their hard mahi, we’re now re-injecting Non-Condensable Gases (NCG) from both generation units OEC3 and OEC4, which is around 1.5T/h or 40% of the station’s emissions. The project team is continuing with the engineering and construction of the NCG reinjection system for the remaining units, aiming to reach 80% NCG reinjection by the end of FY25. This initiative is part of our broader Carbon Emissions Reduction Programme, helping us achieve our climate target of a 70% reduction in Scope 1 emissions by the end of FY30. 🌍 Read more in our Climate Action Plan here: https://lnkd.in/g-6VuFi3

We’re offering a $15,000 scholarship to support and encourage data science or data modelling students enrolled in New Zealand universities. The successful applicant will undertake a research project, working with Mercury on tracking, measuring and analysing data across the Health and Safety component of our business and if possible be offered a summer internship To find out more click here - https://lnkd.in/ga5VzyPW