Waitahora wind farm

Introduction

New Zealand’s demand for energy is growing strongly at about two per cent per annum. The country needs large amounts of new electricity generation and, with concern growing about the effects of climate change, that electricity increasingly needs to come from renewable sources.

Contact Energy is committed to developing environmentally friendly renewable generation projects with more than $2.5 billion of renewable electricity generation projects under development. Contact’s Waitahora wind farm is the company’s most recent wind farm development.

The Waitahora project will be located in the Puketoi Range, near Dannevirke in Southern Hawke’s Bay. Click here to view a map of the project. Click here to view a consultation brochure containing answers to frequently asked questions.

The wind resource on the Puketoi Range is world class, and the remote site is ideal for a wind farm. The project will contain up to 65 individual wind turbines and will generate enough clean, renewable electricity to power up to 86,000 average homes. To see a computer-generated simulation of how parts of the project might look, please click here. To see how the individual turbines might be arranged please click here.

Contact has now filed resource consent applications for this project and has published a number of technical reports on this site.

A number of studies and technical reports are well under way into this project, and this website will be constantly updated with new information as it becomes available.

For more information on this project, or if you have any questions please email us at waitahora@contactenergy.co.nzor call us on 0800 000 458.

Want to know about job opportunities on this project? Please email recruitmentcentre@contactenergy.co.nz or phone  Richard on +64 4 462 1311. Or you can register your interest and submit your CV here.