Te Uku Wind Farm
Te Uku Wind Farm is a wind farm located at Te Uku near Raglan. It has a capacity of 64 MW using 28 wind turbines. Construction was completed in March 2011, at a cost of $200 million. The farm covers an area of approximately . 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 Prime Minister John Key in February 2011. Te Uku was fully operational on 10 March 2011. Te Uku Windfarm is controlled from Wellington where Meridian has its control center for running all of their New Zealand Hydro and Wind generation assets. The windfarm is linked to the national grid at Te Kowhai substation by about of 33 kV lines on 159 steel poles built on concrete pile foundations and an underground cable from just west of Waitetuna Valley Rd to Cogswell Rd, a total of about . Construction Each 130.5 m. high, 318 tonne, turbine took 2 or 3