Resources

Explore how New Zealand’s energy innovators are driving change and shaping a cleaner, smarter future in the 2025 Ara Ake Impact Report.

Take a look at Ara Ake's annual report for 2024-2025.

This report was written by the University of Otago to explore and critically review different baseline methods used in NZ and internationally for demand response, with the aim of providing a recommendation for one or more methods to be explored in a practical context for application in NZ

This white paper identifies that many flexibility service providers face significant upfront challenges and costs. Read about why a fully functioning flexibility market is so important for our energy system, and the fund that Ara Ake has launched to help flexibility service providers reach their goals.

How can Battery Energy Storage Solutions (BESS) be made commercially viable in New Zealand? Read our report, developed in collaboration with EECA and Sapere, on the topic.

Ara Ake has partnered with Rewiring Aotearoa and EECA to develop the Machine Count, New Zealand’s first comprehensive inventory of fossil fuel machines—from cars and tractors to industrial equipment.

An analysis of energy efficiency initiatives and their impact on New Zealand's energy consumption.

A report on the potential and current use of geothermal energy in New Zealand.

An overview of the energy policy framework guiding New Zealand's energy sector.

This review provides a summary of a pilot that was run in Canterbury from September-November 2024. The goal of the Activator was to support a cohort of community organisations from within the Orion Network region, to develop their understanding of how to design, build and manage a community scale energy project.

Ara Ake hosted the Biogas: Opportunities in Organic Waste Streams to Energy in Taranaki webinar on 27 January 2022, connecting cross-ecosystem stakeholder interest groups in lively engagement to explore the potential for the development of biogas within the region.