After more than 10 years on the drawing board, a proposal for a 24 turbine wind farm on the northern Kaimai Ranges near Paeroa is seeking resource consents.
The $180 million Kaimai Wind Farm project has applied for resource consents from the Hauraki District Council and Waikato Regional Council for the construction, operation and maintenance of the large tubines on privately-owned farmland at Tirohia.
The application will be publicly notified, said the company.
The turbine hub height will be up to 132m with a rotor diameter of 146-160m. The farm will connect to the grid via existing 110kV power lines.
Kaimai Wind Farm owns Ventus Energy (NZ), wholly-owned by Glenn Starr, a former consulting engineer with Beca Carter who has worked on infrastructure projects overseas and has a particular interest in gas generation and wind power.