Aitutaki Power Study Report June 2005

Report prepared for the Government of the Cook Islands and funded by the Government of New Zealand. This report is the result of investigation of the current power system on Aitutaki and institutional arrangements for the future direction of Aitutaki Power Supply (APS). The report outlines an overall power sector plan addressing short, medium and long term issues including use of renewable energy technologies  to supplement or replace diesel generation.This project has five main objectives which are as follows:

• determine the short term improvements of the existing power system
• determine medium to long term feasibility of supplementing current diesel power systems with renewable energy
• prelimainary environmental impact assessment
• power sector plan
• institutional arrangement report