From first site to grid connection.

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Reliable energy. Shared benefit.

Rua Kōhā walks a project the whole way: land, resource, consent, finance and commissioning. We help communities and businesses build wind and pumped hydro that is technically sound and locally held.

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rua kōhā ~ Lightning on a mountain top.

Community first

Shared value and local ownership, from the first conversation with landowners.

Technically credible

Models, layouts, consent and commissioning explained in plain language.

Optimistic, resilient

Practical plant. Proven hardware. Energy a region can rely on.

How a project moves.

Six stages we actually do. A job can start at any of them.

  1. 01

    Find the site

    Investigations, generation potential, and agreements with landowners.

  2. 02

    Model the resource

    Wind flow and farm layouts, held against terrain and constraint.

  3. 03

    Shape the scheme

    Pumped hydro: reservoirs, waterways and a powerhouse, set against head, storage and access.

  4. 04

    Consent it

    Effects, configuration, the application and the hearing.

  5. 05

    Make the case

    Engineering, finance, and a business case that will stand up.

  6. 06

    Build and connect

    Construction, quality, grid connection and commissioning.

Based in Nelson. Working the regions.

Rua Koha Energy is a boutique, agile renewable energy developer based in Nelson, taking wind and hybrid projects from site identification through consenting, finance and delivery. It is led by two directors with complementary strengths.

Craig Lusty brings more than 20 years of engineering, development and commissioning leadership across New Zealand and Australia, having delivered over 2 GW of generation assets, including New Zealand’s largest wind and solar farms of their time.

Mark Edwards brings more than 32 years in commercial and corporate banking, two decades of which have focused on project structuring and advisory in cleantech and renewables, with deep experience in capital structuring, due diligence and New Zealand’s regulatory landscape.

Together they combine hands-on delivery capability with commercial and financial rigour to develop projects that are buildable, consentable and bankable.

Land and layoutSite identification, wind measurement, farm and scheme layouts.
People and consentLandowners, iwi and tangata whenua, stakeholders, hearings.
Plant and marketProcurement, civil and electrical design, dispatch and trading.
GridRoute identification, connection, and commissioning.

Current projects

Three wind developments in progress across New Zealand. Nelson is the base; circles show approximate areas only.

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