• Installed on Mayfield Hinds Irrigation Scheme in Mid Canterbury.
• Turbine drives two irrigation pumps delivering 180 L/sec plus up to 190 kW generated back into national grid.
• Turbine maximum flowrate of 4.2 m3/sec with operating head 7.2 m.
• Takes all the water out of the scheme main race, extra water is bypassed down the adjacent baffled spillway.
• Capital cost of approximately $350,000.
• Annual electricity offset or export of approximately $90000.
• Crosstech Engineering was responsible for design and supervision of total scheme, manufactured and installed the crossflow turbine and other associated mechanical components and constructed civil works.