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New Zealand’s energy innovation centre

Turning innovative energy ideas into reality

Ara Ake exists to advance New Zealand’s energy sector toward a sustainable future. We support innovators with resources, connections and funding to help bring their technologies to market.

Innovators

We collaborate and partner with a range of local and global innovators. Meet the organisations who are influencing the future of energy in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Projects

Explore our projects, where we work alongside innovators and industry to develop practical and creative solutions to some of the energy sector's most complex and time-critical challenges.

Services

Depending on your individual needs, we can connect innovators with relevant local and global stakeholders, support field demonstrations, and manage multi-stakeholder projects.

Featured project

Cleantech Mission Group

Ara Ake co-lead’s a national group of experts that supports energy innovators to scale their clean technologies.

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Latest News

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Nine Kiwi startups could offset emissions at the scale of NZ forests

April 22, 2026

Today’s launch of the New Zealand Cleantech Impact Report 2026 shows New Zealand has a pipeline of cleantech companies with the potential to reduce emissions on a global scale.

EU Ambassador visits Ara Ake on innovation road trip

March 23, 2026

EU's ambassador to New Zealand has highlighted Taranaki as a region full of innovation and opportunity

National Flex Discovery Fund reopens with renewed focus on digital

February 25, 2026

Ara Ake has reopened the National Flex Discovery Fund after a successful first round in 2025, continuing its support for smarter ways to manage electricity demand.

Ara Ake on The Business of Tech podcast

February 12, 2026

In the latest episode of The Business of Tech, journalist Peter Griffin sits down with Board member Melissa Clark-Reynolds and Daniel Gnoth from Ara Ake, to explore how we can lean on innovation to navigate opportunities and challenges facing the energy ecosystem.