Te Uku Wind Farm is a wind farm at Te Uku near Raglan, New Zealand. It has a capacity of 64MW using 28 wind turbines. Construction was completed in March 2011, at a cost of $200 million. The farm covers an area of approximately 200 hectares. The wind farm is jointly owned by WEL Networks and Meridian Energy.
Resource consent was granted in May 2008 and appeals were resolved by November 2008. Construction of the wind farm began in 2010. Hick Bros Civil and Spartan Construction won an award for outstanding technical and environmental planning. The wind farm was officially opened by the Prime Minister in February 2011. Te Uku was fully operational on 10 March 2011.
Te Uku Windfarm is controlled from Twizel.Twizel control centre was set up for the Waitaki power scheme.
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