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Te Apiti Wind Farm

Te Apiti wind farm is situated on 11.5 km² of land north of the Manawatu Gorge in the North Island of New Zealand. Te Apiti was New Zealand’s biggest capacity wind farm until the last stage of the close by Tararua wind farm was completed. Te Apiti wind farm consist 55 turbines, each possessing the capability of generating power of 1.65 mega watts (MW). The total electricity generated by Te Apiti wind farm is 90.75 MW. Every turbine has a height of 70 metres, fitted with 3 blades. Te Apiti wind farm project aims at a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and is thus termed as carbon offset project. This wind farm is operated and owned by Meridian Energy Limited. Manawata Gorge continuously creates high speed winds and acts as a wind funnel and therefore is regarded as an ideal location for the construction of wind farm. Te Apiti wind farm was New Zealand’s first wind farm supplying electricity into the national grid

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Project West Wind

Project West Wind is a wind farm situated at New Zealand’s largest and oldest sheep stations known as Terawhiti Station and Makara Farm west of Wellington, New Zealand. Project West Wind, wind farm is the first wind farm in Wellington. In September 2007, the construction of Project West Wind, wind farm started and was completed in late 2009. In April 2009, Prime Minister John Key turned on the first 15 turbines of the wind farm and it was officially opened during that time. It is operated and owned by Meridian Energy. This wind farm is Meridian Energy’s third wind farm which utilizes strong winds; a valuable resource of Wellington.
On an annual basis this wind farm has capacity to generate electricity that can be used by 70,000 homes of New Zealand at the same time. This is equivalent to power all the homes in Wellington.

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Waubra Wind Farm

The Waubra wind farm is situated in Waubra, approximately 35 km north-west of Ballarat city in the state of Victoria, Australia. The Waubra wind farm project is the biggest renewable power project in the southern hemisphere. In February 2009, the Waubra wind farm started generating green power and in July 2009 it became fully operational.

The Waubra wind farm encompasses 128 wind turbines with an operations centre and associated substations. Every wind turbine has a capability of 1.5 MW (megawatts), providing an entire established capability of 192 MW. The power generated by the Waubra wind farm every year produces electrical energy for 143,000 households which is more than enough to power Ballarat city of Victoria state. Statistics suggest that approximately 635,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions is compensated by the Waubra wind farm every year.

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