New wind farm to be New Zealand’s first large-scale generation since 2014

New Zealand electric utility Mercury will develop the country’s first large-scale generation capacity addition since 2014 with a 119MW wind farm set to be built in the south of the North Island, a project that has been in the development pipeline for 15 years. Mercury announced this week that it had committed to constructing the first 33 of 60 planned wind turbines for the 119MW Turitea wind farm, near Palmerston North. The project is billed as “a key milestone in New Zealand’s renewable energy development” as it looks to achieve 100 per cent renewable energy generation by 2035.