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Donations from the public totalled $18,000, Owen said. A mixture of electricity and solar power is now used in the building, but Owen believes in the summer with longer daylight hours, it could be just solar. “The excess we produce in the summer, that we’re not using, will be sold back to the grid,” she said. A long term goal is to buy batteries to retain the solar power generated on site, she added. The solar power system at the museum and information centre was designed and installed by World Solar NZ. Its company director, Doone Morrell, said a total of 54 solar panels were installed on the north-east and north-west of the building.