Viking Energy applies for further changes to its consent

RENEWABLE energy developer Viking Energy has applied to have the upper limit of 457 Megawatts (WW) for its consented 103-turbine wind farm removed and replaced with the looser term of “greater than 50 MW”. If approved by the Energy Consent Unit, it will allow the company to potentially use larger turbines than anticipated when planning consent was first granted in April 2012. Changing this element of the consent is included in Viking Energy’s application to increase the size of the individual turbines to a maximum of 155 meters, which was submitted to the Energy Consent Unit in November.