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Future of Cities & Regions

How much electricity infrastructure will a region need in twenty years?

Client

Orion Group New Zealand

Place

New Zealand

Practice

Future of Cities & Regions

Services

Forecasting our Futures · Services and Infrastructure Demand

Year

2025

The question

An electricity network plans in decades. What it needs to know is how many dwellings will exist, and where.

What we observed

Twenty-year population and dwelling projections were built at small-area and local-authority level by combining a probabilistic population model, an economic model tracking the historical relationship between migration and economic activity, and consultation with regional migration specialists.

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What changed

The projections gave the network operator a small-area basis for planning electricity infrastructure over a twenty-year horizon.

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