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 (2 km²). The wind farm is jointly owned by WEL Networks

WEL Networks

WEL Networks Limited is an electricity distribution company, serving the Waikato Region in New Zealand. WEL is the fifth largest electricity distribution companies in New Zealand, with over 80,000 connections and 4,900 km of lines....

 and Meridian Energy

Meridian Energy

Meridian Energy Limited is a New Zealand state-owned electricity generator and retailer. The company generates the largest proportion of New Zealand's electricity, generating 32 percent of the country's electricity in the year ending 31 December 2009, and is the fourth-equal largest retailer, with...

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Resource consent was granted in May 2008 and appeals were resolved by November 2008. Construction of the wind farm began in 2010. The wind farm was officially opened by the Prime Minister in February 2011. Te Uku was fully operational on 10 March 2011.

External links

• Meridian Energy - Project Te Uku
• WEL Networks - Wind Generation