Info: Fast-track team offline 25 December 2025 to 4 January 2026
The contact centre closes at midday on 24 December. The application portal and this website remain available throughout the break.

Application documents

Personal details have been redacted from the application documents.

Fast-track Approvals Act 2024 Substantive Application Form – Tekapo Power Scheme (PDF, 7.2MB)

Assessment of environmental effects (PDF, 3MB) 

Appendices 

Appendix A: Treaty impact assessment – Te Rūnanga o Arowhenua, Te Rūnanga o Waihao and Te Rūnanga o Moeraki (PDF, 6MB) 

Appendix B: Letters of support – Te Rūnanga o Arowhenua, Te Rūnanga o Waihao, Te Rūnanga o Moeraki and Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu (PDF, 934KB)

Appendix C: Landowners adjacent to the Tekapo Power Scheme core land (PDF, 417KB)

Appendix D (Updated 25 July 2025): Proposed resource consent conditions (PDF, 410KB)

Appendix D (Superseded): Proposed resource consent conditions (PDF, 389KB)

Appendix E: Draft plans referred to in the proposed consent conditions (PDF, 7.9MB) 

Appendix F: Existing environment approach (PDF, 386KB)

Appendix G: Electricity sector benefits 2025 (PDF, 958KB)

Appendix H: Titles and deeds of easements (PDF, 4.6MB)

Appendix I: Schedule 57 (Takapō, Lake Tekapo), schedule 34 (Lake Pūkaki) and schedule 72 (Waitaki River) statutory acknowledgements (PDF, 109KB)

Appendix J: natural character, landscape and visual amenity effects Assessment 2023 (PDF, 10MB)

Appendix K: Hydrological and hydrogeological analyses 2023 (PDF, 41MB)

Appendix L: Assessment of aquatic environmental effects 2023 (PDF, 3MB)

Appendix M: Native fish assessment 2018 (PDF, 8MB)

Appendix N: Lakeshore geomorphology and processes existing environment and future effects 2022 (PDF, 10MB)

Appendix O: A Review of terrestrial invertebrate information for the Tekapo Power Scheme resource consents 2025 (PDF, 623KB)

Appendix P: Tekapo Herpetofauna Effects Assessment 2023 (PDF, 13MB)

Appendix Q: Assessment of ecological effects – Avifauna 2025 (PDF, 17MB)

Appendix R: Assessment of effects on vegetation 2023 (PDF, 4MB)

Appendix S: Tekapo hydro scheme reconsenting recreation review 2023 (PDF, 2MB)

Appendix T: Canterbury Policy Assessment – Canterbury Regional Policy Statement, Waitaki Water Allocation Plan and Canterbury Land and Water Plan Provisions (PDF, 467KB)

Appendix U: Letters of support (PDF, 3MB)