Wind Farm

During the Geosciences conference in Palmerston North I went on a field trip to the Tararua wind farm. The following pictures are of the first two phases of the development. These are Vestas V47 turbines and put out 660kW each and there are 103 of them for a total of 68MW. These turbines are mounted on lattice towers which I've never seen used for commercial scale wind farms

The next phase will consist of 31 Vestas V90 3MW turbines for an additional capacity of 93MW. While the lattice towers used four concrete anchors the new towers will be round, a tower base ready to go

There must have been some Ausies in the group because the sheep were running scared