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Waipipi Wind Farm

South Taranaki District, New Zealand

The 2362nd largest power station in the world

133.3 MW · Capacity

The Waipipi Wind Farm is a wind powered electricity generation project in New Zealand owned and operated by Mercury NZ Ltd. This site is located between Pātea and Waverley in South Taranaki. The wind farm consists of 31 wind turbines over 980 hectares, generating up to 133 MW at a cost of approximately $277 million. The 4.3 MW machines are the largest wind turbines installed in New Zealand.

Power station data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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