Castle Hill Wind Farm

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Castle Hill Wind Farm
Castle Hill Wind Farm
CountryNew Zealand
Locationeast of Eketāhuna
Coordinates 40°43′0″S175°56′0″E / 40.71667°S 175.93333°E / -40.71667; 175.93333
StatusProposed
Owner Genesis Energy
Wind farm
Type Onshore
Hub height90–100 m (295–328 ft)
Rotor diameter80–110 m (262–361 ft)
Power generation
Units operationalup to 71
Nameplate capacity up to 300 MW
External links
Website Castle Hill -- Genesis Energy
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The Castle Hill Wind Farm is a proposed 300 MW wind farm being developed by Genesis Energy. Conceived as a much larger installation of 286 wind turbines with potential output of up to 858 MW depending on the model of wind turbines selected, it was initially estimated to cost more than $1.6 billion and be New Zealand's largest wind farm. [1]

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The resource consent application was lodged in August 2011 and consents were granted in June 2012. This was appealed to the Environment Court. In July 2013, Genesis announced that all appeals had been resolved. [2] Resource consent for the project was set to expire in 2023 if work was not begun before 2023. [3] [4]

In February 2021, Genesis announced that constructing the wind farm remained an option. [4] [5] In August, they announced they had no plans to build it. [6] In September 2021, Genesis said that the wind farm was still part of their plans for renewable development, but that other projects had been prioritised ahead of it. [3]

In March 2023, Genesis applied to extend the resource consent for the wind farm and vary its conditions. [7] Its proposal involves reducing the size of the windfarm to 300 MW. [8]

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References

  1. ↑ McNicol, Hamish (4 July 2013). "Wairarapa mega wind farm green-lit". Dominion Post.
  2. ↑ "Genesis Energy gets the green light for New Zealand's largest planned wind farm at Castle Hill" (Press release). Genesis Energy. 4 July 2013. Archived from the original on 1 February 2014.
  3. 1 2 "Super wind farm waiting in the wings". Bush Telegraph. 27 September 2021. Retrieved 29 September 2021– via PressReader.
  4. 1 2 Tom Pullar-Strecker (3 February 2021). "Genesis may revive plan for $1.6 billion wind farm at Castle Hill". Stuff. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
  5. ↑ Tom Taylor (15 February 2021). "Wairarapa's Castle Hill could become country's largest windfarm, creating 200 jobs". New Zealand Herald . Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  6. ↑ "Amid power supply scrutiny, Genesis not planning to build NZ's biggest wind farm at Castle Hill". RNZ. 11 August 2021. Retrieved 11 August 2021.
  7. ↑ "Proposed wind farm is back on the table". Wairarapa Times-Age. 17 March 2023. Retrieved 17 March 2023.
  8. ↑ "Genesis slashes size of proposed Wairarapa wind farm". Stuff. 7 April 2023. Retrieved 7 April 2023.
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