The Developers

We bring skill sets and experience in a range of energy technologies, and a deep understanding of the New Zealand energy sector.

Our development principles

Elemental Group have a focus on mana whenua, and local participation as well as early engagement and delivering enduring benefits for stakeholders and communities. Our goal is to build an industry, not just projects.  Our approach to developing an offshore wind industry in Aotearoa New Zealand includes:

  • Partner with Māori, as kaitiaki, co-governors, owners and joint-venture partners

  • Focus on enduring community-centred outcomes aligned with te ao Māori

  • Commited to biodiversity and marine environment restoration and regeneration

  • Collaborate with wider energy market participants and support common infrastructure solutions to reduce impact

  • Explore synergistic activities such as aquaculture and fisheries

  • Create and deliver skills, training and education

  • Prioritise local procurement and employment

  • Deliver meaningful, secure jobs and career paths

  • Develop projects with positive legacies

  • Accelerate Aotearoa towards meeting its Net Zero targets

Our other projects

Elemental Group

Elemental Group is an international energy developer and consultancy headquartered in New Plymouth, dedicated to providing better energy outcomes for our clients. We deliver world class solutions for a world in energy transition, ranging from remote Pacific Island communities to major cities. We aim to create enduring benefits for people and place.

We are diverse, smart, hard-working, and innovative, with services across science, engineering, environment, project management and finance.

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Waikato Offshore Wind is one of two offshore wind projects launched by the Developer in Aotearoa with total capacity of 2.8GW. We announced our plans for the South Taranaki offshore wind project recently and a link to the website for this project is included below. We will announce details of our additional projects shortly.