2020 - Solar solutions

The global commitment to reduce carbon emissions by 2025 was gaining momentum with several wind and large-scale grid-connected solar plants announced for development in New Zealand. Horizon’s Network was no different and during 2021 over 300MW of enquiries were received from a range of local and international developers.

Although the Company had policies for connecting small (<10kwp) rooftop solar solutions these large-scale requests posed an additional challenge. The first enquiry was received in May 2020 and by September 2020 the company had developed a range of technical and commercial contracts that would help fast-track these developments.