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Hauauru ma raki final decision released

Saturday 28 May 2011, 9:23AM

By Contact Energy

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RAGLAN

The Board of Inquiry has released the final Hauauru ma raki decision regarding the company’s proposed wind farm development on the west coast of the North Island in the Waikato region.

The decision grants all resource consents for 168 wind turbines and designation for the transmission lines.

Contact Chief Executive, Dennis Barnes, said the granting of the Hauauru ma raki consent is pleasing and is the final decision due following the three consent processes for the company that concluded last year.

Hauauru ma raki would generate up to 504 megawatts of power from 168 turbines, which is enough renewable energy to power around 170,000 average homes. The site runs from four kilometres south of Port Waikato to Te Akau, around 10 kilometres north of Raglan.