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Horse and nature protection rule

Proposals for two more wind farms in New Zealand have been rejected on grounds that they would negatively impact the local environment. In the North Island, Tararua District Council and Horizons Regio...

Last minute appeals lodged against 210 MW West Wind proposal

A number of last-minute appeals have been lodged against the notice of consent granted to Meridian Energy's 210 MW West Wind project on December 22. The appeals, coming in after the statutory 15 worki...

Utility to appeal against 20 MW Awhitu rejection

Power utility Genesis Energy says it plans to appeal against a decision by Franklin District Council to reject its application to develop the 20 MW Awhitu wind farm. The project was rejected on the gr...

Nacelle on prototype wind turbine crashed down in high winds

In a weekend which saw a rare tornado in New Zealand rip a town apart, a massive directional change in strong winds caused nine tonnes of nacelle to come crashing down from atop the prototype Windflow...

Project shelved after worries about effect on horses

New Zealand electricity utility Genesis Energy's plans for a wind farm at the Awhitu Peninsula, south of Auckland, look likely to be shelved after the project was rejected by commissioners operating u...

New Zealand inches forward

New Zealand's wind energy developments, which have been marking time for some years, have taken another small step forward with the resolution of siting problems that have delayed installation of a pr...

Sellicks Beach community polarised by proposed wind farm

A bid to develop a 70-122 MW wind farm in the Sellicks Hill/Myponga region of South Australia is experiencing community opposition. The proposal, by New Zealand developers TrustPower in conjunction wi...

New Zealand firm proposes huge wind farm

A 70-122 MW wind farm at Sellicks Hill-Myoponga, south of Adelaide in South Australia, is being proposed by New Zealand's Wind Farm Developments Limited in conjunction with Trust Power. Up to 70 turbi...

Fossil of the Day embarrassment to green image

New Zealand has built a lot of business on its clean, green image, so the country's renewable energy proponents were embarrassed to hear their homeland excoriated with the award "Fossil of the Day," c...

NZWEA fights noise concern with facts

The newly formed New Zealand Wind Energy Association is hoping that its planned Open Day for the Wellington public will demonstrate that wind turbines do not sound like an old washing machine, say...

DODGING THE PITFALLS

New Zealand should be able to learn from the last decade of European wind farm commercialisation and avoid many of the problems and pitfalls encountered in overseas development. Such is the hope expre...

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