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The Kaiwera Downs Wind Farm is a proposed wind farm to be located in the Southland region of New Zealand. It is expected to have a maximum capacity of 240MW and use up 83 turbines. Originally proposed by Trustpower, it will now be owned and operated by Mercury Energy.

The project received resource consent in June 2008. In September 2018 Tilt said that the development was waiting for favourable market conditions. In June 2021 Tilt announced the project was being acquired by Mercury Energy. In June 2022 Mercury began talks with the local community over the wind farm.

The New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage gives a translation of "hot food" for Kaiwera.

Installation of an initial ten turbines totalling 43MW of generation is expected to start in October 2022.

Location

The wind farm will be about 15 kilometres south-east of Gore, within an area of 2,568 hectares (25.68 km).

See also

• Wind power in New Zealand

References

1. Sonia Gerken (4 April 2008). "Wind farm carbon savings 'could be worth 25m'". The Southland Times. Retrieved 24 September 2008.
2. Glenn Conway (5 July 2008). "Appeals lodged against wind farm". Otago Daily Times. Retrieved 24 September 2008.
3. Rachael Kelly (26 September 2018). "Kaiwera Downs wind farm still on the horizon". Stuff. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
4. Rachael Kelly (11 June 2021). "Kaiwera Downs windfarm project still viable in Southland". Stuff. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
5. Logan Savory (22 June 2022). "Talks ramp up around Kaiwera Downs wind farm near Gore". Stuff. Retrieved 27 June 2022.
6. "1000 Māori place names". New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage. 6 August 2019.
7. Geraden Cann (13 September 2022). "Construction on new wind farm near Gore will begin in October". Stuff. Retrieved 13 September 2022.
8. "Wind farm 'something we will have to learn to live with'". Otago Daily Times. 14 September 2022. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
9. "Mercury NZ commits to $115m wind farm near Gore". New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
10. "Kaiwera Downs Wind Farm". Tilt Renewables. Retrieved 24 June 2018.

External links

• "Kaiwera Downs Wind Farm". Tilt Renewables. Retrieved 24 June 2018.

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