Uploaded October 2024 | Updated September 2026, 22 hours ago

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It’s New Zealand’s biggest hydro power station, and it’s mostly hidden 200m underground! 😮

Manapōuri Hydro Station is located on the edge of Lake Manapōuri’s West Arm in Fiordland National Park, which has UNESCO World Heritage status as part of Te Wāhipounamu. Starting in 1964, the project took 1,800 workers eight years to complete in extremely harsh conditions.

It was designed to produce huge amounts of electricity. At full noise it can produce up to 800 megawatts - that's enough to power roughly 620,000 homes.

It's an amazing feat of engineering, and we're very proud that we get to work on this incredible part of Kiwi history.

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