The Kaiwera Downs Wind Farm is a wind farm under construction in the Southland region of New Zealand. It is expected to have a maximum capacity of 240MW and use up 83 turbines. Originally proposed by Trustpower, it will now be owned and operated by Mercury Energy. The New Zealand

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gives a translation of "hot food" for ''Kaiwera''.

Location

The wind farm will be located about 15 kilometres south-east of

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, within an area of .

Construction

The project received resource consent in June 2008. In September 2018 Tilt said that the development was waiting for favourable market conditions. In June 2021 Tilt announced the project was being acquired by Mercury Energy. In June 2022 Mercury began talks with the local community over the wind farm. Installation of an initial ten turbines totalling 43MW of generation is expected to start in October 2022. Earthworks began in the first week of October 2022. A sod-turning ceremony was held in November 2022, with the first turbines expected to arrive in April 2023. The wind farm is expected to be operational by early 2024.

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Construction

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