Clyde Dam

Electricity to the country from our "back door" and we pay the highest electricity costs in the country. When you query it of course they have all these reasons. Doesn't matter that it comes from right here and we are the coldest, hottest and driest area in the country. We need power to pump water in the summer or it would be a desert, of we need heat in the winter - it is freezing.

And this huge dam is right here.

It is huge too. The largest concrete dam in NZ.