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RE: Surprises awaited us in Palmerston North!

in #travel7 years ago

It's super nice to read about your travels in New Zealand and to see the photos. The landscape shot showing the Te Apiti Wind Farm is just magnificent because of the rolling hills and combination of light and shadow. Such a great view.

I found Te Apiti Wind Farm on GoogleMaps and there are some other photos posted there which make me think this might be the best looking wind farm I've seen. I don't normally think of wind turbines as particularly attractive but then again most of those I've seen have been on more level land planted with corn, soybeans or wheat.

It makes a big difference aesthetically to have them in the midst of a rolling green landscape like the one you witnessed.

The Meridien Energy website says that the wind farm is made up of 55 turbines and can produce up to 90.75 megawatts of electric power:

"...enough electricity each year for about 39,000 average New Zealand homes."

As impressive as that is there's now an even larger wind farm in NZ: Tararua Wind Farm.