Team Trev Powered By The Wind Of TrustPower Limited (NZE:TPW)
Adelaide, July 20, 2010 AEST (ABN Newswire) - Team Trev is a group of volunteers who will drive a small green electric car, Trev, around the world in the 2010 Zero Race.
A requirement of our participation in Zero Race is that we source 100% green power for our drive around the world. Being an electric car powered by renewable energy, our circumnavigation will effectively be emission free.
In reality, we will be charging from various electric grids along our circumnavigation route, and the energy we consume will be a mixture of coal, nuclear, hydroelectric, wind and solar generation. In effect we'll be consuming a mixture of renewable and non-renewable energy but offsetting that with 100% renewable energy.
Trev requires approximately 70 Wh/km, so a 30,000km trip will consume approximately 2100kWh (2.1MWh) of energy.
New Zealand based utility TrustPower Limited (
NZE:TPW) (PINK:TRPWF) has kindly donated this amount of green power to Team Trev, in the form of Renewable Energy Certificates and a small cash donation. The energy will be sourced from TrustPower's 98.7MW Snowtown Wind Farm in South Australia. This wind farm consists of 2.1MW wind turbines, so the amount of energy required to drive Trev around the world is generated by a single turbine in just one hour (at full power).
Team Trev is very grateful for TrustPower for its contribution towards our Zero Race campaign.
About TrustPower Limited
Starting business in 1925, TrustPower has grown to be New Zealand's fourth largest electricity retailer, and fifth largest electricity generator.
In New Zealand, TrustPower owns 36 small to medium size Hydro Generating Stations and a large Wind Farm, with a further Wind Farm recently completed in South Australia. We produce electricity exclusively from renewable sources and our power stations produce enough electricity for around 220,000 Kiwi households!
With assets of over NZ$2 Billion, TrustPower is majority New Zealand owned and is listed on the New Zealand stock exchange.
For more information on the progress of Team Trev, please visit;
http://www.teamtrev.com
For more information on the Zero-Race, please visit;
http://www.zero-race.com
Contact
Media enquiries:
Heather Leggett
MOB: +61-450-587-732
Sponsorship enquiries:
Team Trev Director
Andrew Dickson
MOB: +61-418-866-470
EMAIL: andrewdickson2009@gmail.com
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