Mt Stuart Wind Farm
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The Mt Stuart Wind Farm is a wind farm
in New Zealand
being constructed by Pioneer Generation. It is located 15 kilometres west of Milton
in the Otago Region of the South Island.
Resource consents were granted in February 2010. Construction began in April 2011 and the nine turbine wind farm is due to be commissioned in December.
Wind farm
A wind farm is a group of wind turbines in the same location used to produce electric power. A large wind farm may consist of several hundred individual wind turbines, and cover an extended area of hundreds of square miles, but the land between the turbines may be used for agricultural or other...
in New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
being constructed by Pioneer Generation. It is located 15 kilometres west of Milton
Milton, New Zealand
Milton is a town of 2,000 people, located on State Highway 1, 50 kilometres to the south of Dunedin in Otago, New Zealand. It lies on the floodplain of the Tokomairiro River, one branch of which loops past the north and south ends of the town...
in the Otago Region of the South Island.
Resource consents were granted in February 2010. Construction began in April 2011 and the nine turbine wind farm is due to be commissioned in December.