More than 150 invited guests attended a dawn ceremony at Wairakei, near Taupo today (Friday March 11) to mark the opening of a unique sanctuary within the confines of the privately owned 18-hole ...

The expansive Wairakei Resort Taupō is a 3.5-hour drive from Auckland, or 4.5 from Wellington, in the heart of the region’s geothermal valley. This historic low-rise hotel sits on 68 hectares of ...

Contact Energy is proud of the historic role the Wairakei Geothermal Power Station has played in pioneering geothermal generation, Contact’s CEO Dennis Barnes says. In acknowledging the 60th ...

The landmark Wairakei Power Station will eventually be decommissioned once a new geothermal plant is built near Taupo. Contact Energy has been granted permission to buy a block of rural Taupo land to ...

Singapore-based Kevin Peeris, senior vice-president of Bayview International Hotels & Resorts, left, with Wairakei Resort Taupō resort manager David Hopcroft on the recently re-opened golf course.

Te Mihi Power Station is a two-unit 166-MW geothermal plant currently undergoing commissioning on New Zealand’s North Island. It replaces the Wairakei Power Station constructed in 1958—but with a much ...

The former forestry land near Wairakei was set to be turned into 39 dairy farms. Photo / File State-owned Landcorp said it had scaled back its plans to turn former forestry land into 39 dairy farms ...