Tararua Wind Farm

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The Tararua Wind Farm is a wind farm owned and operated by TrustPower. It is located on 700 hectares (7.0 km²) of farm land on the Tararua Ranges of New Zealand. It has become New Zealand's largest capacity wind farm with a total capacity of 160MW[1].

The wind farm was first commissioned in 1999 and has been upgraded twice since. The most recent addition was comissioned in September 2007.

The wind farm consists of 134 turbines of two different types:

  • 103 turbines with three 23.5 metre long blades. Each turbine is rated at 660kW[2] and is mounted on a 40 metre high steel lattice tower[3].
  • 31 turbines with three 45 metre blades and a 3MW rating.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Tararua Wind Farm TrustPower
  2. ^ TrustPower Celebrates New Wind Farm High Scoop, 13 September 2007
  3. ^ Tararua Wind Farm Eastbridge

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