This fake news is on the Newstalk website, and refers to a planned venture on the Heretaunga Plains near the Rangitikei Hotel.
“The solar project will deliver 200MW of renewable energy by 2027, with an additional 200MW to be built before the end of the decade.
At 0200 hrs it will generate nothing nada zilch, it needs freekin sunlight.
Oh it can be set up with a Battery as our mobile home is equipped to deliver warmth to swmbo in the middle of a dark night and such storage does not come cheap.
Now a Battery for 200 MW will currently cost around a sum in excess of one hundred Million .
The plate generation capacity of 200 MW will not deliver 200 MW as it will need around 20% of the generation to recharge the battery to deliver when the sun dont shine. That at present is quite a proportion of the 24 hours.
Now why would a supposedly independent Media outlet decide not to tell all the facts surrounding such earth shattering “news” quite simple really, they are so entwined with the moronic charade they would never consider such arrant destruction of the Meme, “It is just so Green”
No Minister 
MegaWatts are POWER. MegaWattHours are a unit of (renewable, or any other sort) energy.
Errr… if it nameplate output is 200 maga (sic) watts, then a simple search with AI indicates actual output is between 40-60 MW due to the following reasons
Nighttime
Cloudy days, rain days or just generally bad weather
Temperature, too cold too hot
Panel degradation
Operational losses (wiring, inverter losses, battery etc etc)
So a capacity somewhere between 10 and 30%
More good farmland being turned into wasteful uses because of wasteful subsidies and stupid energy policy.
A thoughtful ready might ask how many panels would be needed to match the output of say a neuclear plant ??
“Let’s say you want to replace St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant. SLNPP has two older, smaller reactors with 1,968 megawatts of nominal electrical output. Average output is running at 1,875MW, allowing for refueling breaks and maintenance – SLNPP has achieved a laudable Capacity factor of over 95% in recent years.
For a simple matching of SLNPP’s peak output, you would need a total of (1,875,000,000 / 300) = 6,250,000 three hundred-watt solar panels. (Feel free to name another size, I’m just familiar with 300-watt units.)
But solar’s capacity factor in Florida is running about 25%. To get the same daily average output as SLNPP, you would need (6,250,000 / 0.25) = 25 million 300-watt solar panels with 7,500MW of peak output.”””
Sobering maths