OT_150: EECA Community Renewable Energy Fund (CREF) Round 2 regional partners

OT_150: EECA Community Renewable Energy Fund (CREF) Round 2 regional partners

Source

https://www.eeca.govt.nz/co-funding-and-support/products/community-renewable-energy-fund/ — original source (opens in a new tab; the file is not redistributed)

EECA Community Renewable Energy Fund (CREF) — Round 2 regional partners

The EECA delivery-stage primary for the CREF Round 2 co-funding — the per-partner allocation behind the aggregate URL_015 carries

EECA approved 22 regional partners for Round 2 of the Community Renewable Energy Fund, disbursing 9.6 million in EECA co-funding**, with the regional partners committing a further **3.2 million of their own. This page holds the named per-partner allocation (councils, regional councils and iwi trusts, Northland to Westland) that URL_015 reports only as programme-level totals. Authored EECA PDF (metadata: Helene Smyth / MS Word / 10 Sep 2025) → data_quality: verified; the Round 2 co-funding round itself was announced July 2025 (per URL_015 key-claim + CR_024), the 10 Sep 2025 PDF being a later allocation document. ⚠ This is a funding-allocation document — it carries no per-site CapEx and no kW/kWh system config (those live in URL_015 / CR_012). It partially serves RT_156 but does not resolve it: the 28M / 150-site / 10–30 kW "Round 2" figures RT_156 sought do NOT appear here — the 28M is the CREF programme total commitment per CR_024, not a Round-2-only figure (see Notes).

Summary

A one-page EECA allocation notice listing the 22 regional partners approved for Round 2 of the Community Renewable Energy Fund (CREF), with the EECA co-funding amount awarded to each. EECA’s total Round 2 co-funding is 9.6 million**; the regional partners commit a further **3.2 million of their own. CREF part-funds renewable energy (predominantly solar PV + battery storage) at community-resilience sites, delivered through intermediary “regional partners” — territorial authorities (district and city councils), regional councils, and iwi/Māori trusts (Trust Tairāwhiti, Tatau Tatau o Te Wairoa) — who then run site selection within their regions. The per-partner amounts listed are the EECA co-funding portions and range from 132,000 (Kawerau District Council) to 1,188,000 (Northland Regional Council); they sum to 9,558,000, consistent with the stated 9.6M rounded total. The document’s value to Neobiome is a delivery-stage, government-primary NZ community-finance datapoint — the actual per-partner co-funding allocation completing the CREF-family provenance chain (OT_120 Budget-2023 bid → programme delivery → these Round 2 partner allocations). It carries no techno-economic system data.

Key claims

- claim: "EECA has approved 22 regional partners who will receive a total of $9.6 million in co-funding, with regional partners committing a total of $3.2 million."
  source_location: "CREF Round 2 Regional Partners, opening statement, p.1"
- claim: "List of CREF regional partners in Round 2 (EECA co-funding awarded to each): Hauraki District Council, $264,000; Kawerau District Council, $132,000; Trust Tairāwhiti, $450,000; Hasting District Council [sic — Hastings], $462,000; Tararua District Council, $330,000; Nelson City Council, $330,000; Marlborough District Council, $396,000; Grey District Council, $264,000; Selwyn District Council, $396,000; Christchurch City Council, $198,000; Central Hawkes Bay District Council, $264,000; Tasman District Council, $660,000; Rotorua Lakes Council, $198,000; Napier City Council, $264,000; Buller District Council, $264,000; Northland Regional Council, $1,188,000; Thames Coromandel District Council, $594,000; Bay of Plenty Regional Council, $1,056,000; Western Bay of Plenty District Council, $528,000; Masterton District Council, $792,000; Tatau Tatau o Te Wairoa, $264,000; Westland District Council, $264,000."
  source_location: "List of CREF regional partners in Round 2, p.1"

Neobiome Intelligence relevance

This is the delivery-stage EECA co-funding primary for CREF Round 2 — a government-sourced community-finance datapoint, not a techno-economic dataset.

• I01 Financial & Economic Sufficiency (community_finance). It supplies the actual per-partner EECA co-funding allocation for Round 2 — 22 named regional partners sharing 9.6M EECA + 3.2M partner commitment OT_150. This is the granular, delivery-stage counterpart to OT_120’s Budget-2023 funding envelope and URL_015’s programme-level aggregate — a concrete national NZ funding route substantiating the CREF co-funding assumption used downstream in the NI financial layer (the co-funding lever noted in CR_024, which also carries the CREF **28M total-commitment** figure — the programme-wide total, distinct from this 9.6M Round 2 allocation). At the Round 2 programme pool, the EECA:partner split is EECA 9.6M (≈75%) : partner 3.2M (≈25%) OT_150 — note this is the programme co-funding split between EECA and its regional partners, NOT the per-site grant proportion (the “CREF ~25%” per-site lever in CR_024 refers to EECA’s share of each site’s full installed cost — a different quantity; see Notes for a discrepancy to reconcile against URL_015). The per-partner amounts listed are the EECA co-funding portions (summing to 9,558,000 ≈ 9.6M), not the $3.2M partner commitment, which is an unitemised aggregate.
• D01 Renewable Energy & Storage. A national programme-membership / provenance point for the CREF solar+BESS co-funding programme: it names the 22 Round 2 delivery partners (councils, regional councils, iwi trusts) and their footprint spans Northland to Westland — evidence of a nationally-distributed community-energy co-funding channel OT_150. Like OT_120, it carries no per-site kW/kWh config or CapEx — use URL_015 / CR_012 for system size and per-site cost. Do not enter any figure from this page into an NI cost cell; its role is co-funding-availability provenance and the delivery-partner map.

Research targets

Advanced (partially serves — stays OPEN)

• RT_156 (ADVANCED → this page; stays OPEN): RT_156 sought the EECA CREF Round 2 announcement as the primary for the 28M commitment, 150-site Round 2 coverage, and 10–30 kW solar+BESS standard config**. This document **is** the official EECA Round 2 regional-partner allocation — the announcement's substance (who was funded and how much: 22 partners, 9.6M EECA + 3.2M partner) — so it materially advances the target and, together with [[ot_120_mbie-cref-energy-resilience-2023|OT_120]], means a primary EECA/MBIE CREF Round 2 government source is now held. **But it does NOT contain the 28M / 150-site / 10–30 kW figures RT_156 also sought (verified by full read of the raw). Those remain synthesis-only (CR_012; CR_024) and describe a different accounting layer than the 9.6M EECA co-funding documented here. ⚠ **Cross-reference: [[cr_024_nz-community-pv-battery-cost-2026|CR_024]] resolves the accounting layer** — it frames the **28M as the CREF total commitment** (whole-programme, across rounds) and separately records **Round 2 (July 2025) = 9.6M to 22 regional partners**, which matches this primary exactly. So a 12.8M EECA+partner Round 2 pool is not expected to contain the 28M: the 28M is the programme-wide total, not a Round-2-only figure. RT_156 stays OPEN with the residual re-characterised: the 150-site count and 10–30 kW config still need a separate primary (the EECA per-site 217-list download or an MBIE programme page); the $28M is now traced to CR_024 as the CREF programme total (not a Round 2 commitment). No new RT opened — the residual rides on the existing RT_156 row.

Research gaps

• No new RTs. The per-site 217-site CREF download (per-site cost, community type, region) remains the separate low-priority extension already noted on URL_015 (RT_090); this Round 2 regional-partner list does not cover it.

Notes

Primary EECA government document — a one-page CREF Round 2 regional-partner allocation notice. Read verbatim in full (1-page A4 PDF, 475,606 bytes, pdftotext). PDF metadata: Author “Helene Smyth”, Creator/Producer “Microsoft Word for Microsoft 365”, CreationDate 10 Sep 2025 NZST — an authored EECA document, which is why it is treated as an authoritative download (data_quality: verified), not an AI capture. ⚠ Round date = July 2025. The CREF Round 2 co-funding round was announced July 2025 — URL_015’s key-claim reads ‘in July 2025 EECA approved 22 regional partners for $9.6 million’, and CR_024 records ‘Round 2 (July 2025)’. This PDF (CreationDate 10 Sep 2025) is a later allocation document capturing that July round; cite the round date as July 2025 and treat 10 Sep 2025 as the document’s authoring/metadata date only.

⚠ Arithmetic check (verified). The 22 per-partner EECA co-funding amounts sum to 9,558,000**, consistent with the stated **9.6 million rounded EECA total. This confirms the per-partner figures are the EECA co-funding portions (not partner commitments); the $3.2 million partner commitment is an aggregate only and is not itemised per partner in the document.

⚠ 28M cross-reference (verified against CR_024).** [[cr_024_nz-community-pv-battery-cost-2026|CR_024]] carries the figure RT_156 attributed to "Round 2" — verbatim: *"…NZD 28M total commitment; Round 2 (July 2025) NZD 9.6M to 22 regional partners."* CR_024 itself distinguishes the **28M CREF total commitment (whole-programme) from the **9.6M Round 2** EECA co-funding to 22 partners — the exact figure this primary documents. So the 28M is a programme-level total, a different accounting layer from the 12.8M (9.6M EECA + 3.2M partner) Round 2 pool; it is **not** a Round-2-only commitment and does not conflict with this primary. Trace the 28M to CR_024 (programme total), not to this Round 2 allocation.

⚠ Verbatim spellings preserved. The source writes “Hasting District Council” (Hastings) and “Central Hawkes Bay” (Hawke’s Bay) — reproduced as-is in key_claims with a [sic] note on the Hastings typo. The last two entries (“Tatau Tatau o Te Wairoa 264,000", "Westland District Council 264,000”) omit the comma before the amount in the source; normalised to comma form in the claim for readability, amounts unchanged.

⚠ Discrepancy to reconcile — EECA:partner co-funding ratio vs URL_015. URL_015’s NI-relevance note characterises CREF as “~25% EECA / ~75% partner co-funding”. At the Round 2 programme pool documented here the split is the inverse — EECA 9.6M (≈75%)** : partner **3.2M (≈25%). The two are reconcilable only if URL_015 means the per-site grant proportion (EECA covers ~25% of a site’s full installed cost, community/partner ~75%) rather than the EECA:partner pool split — a different quantity. Flag for reconciliation at calculation time; do not treat the two ratios as the same figure, and do not use “CREF 25%” to mean the EECA share of the programme pool.

⚠ Not a duplicate. No existing page in the corpus carries the 22-partner Round 2 breakdown. This is distinct from the three existing CREF-family sources — URL_015 (EECA delivery page, aggregate 9.6M/3.2M + 88k/site benchmark), [[ot_120_mbie-cref-energy-resilience-2023|OT_120]] (MBIE Budget 2023 CERF funding bid, 50.152m envelope) and CR_012 (synthesis) — and completes the CREF-family provenance chain with the delivery-stage per-partner allocation.

Connections

Links to

Sources (4): CR_012 · CR_024 · OT_120 · URL_015

Referenced by

Sources (2): OT_120 · URL_015

EDT domains (1): D01: Renewable Energy & Storage Systems

SSI indicators (1): I01: Financial & Economic Self-Sufficiency