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Parkwind looking at plans for offshore wind farm in South Taranaki

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Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Mon, 11 Aug 2025, 7:42am
The Veja Mate fixed bottom offshore wind farm in Germany, developed by Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, which wants to build a one gigawatt windfarm off the coast of South Taranaki in collaboration with the NZ Super Fund. Photo: Supplied / Port Taranaki
The Veja Mate fixed bottom offshore wind farm in Germany, developed by Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, which wants to build a one gigawatt windfarm off the coast of South Taranaki in collaboration with the NZ Super Fund. Photo: Supplied / Port Taranaki

Parkwind looking at plans for offshore wind farm in South Taranaki

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Mon, 11 Aug 2025, 7:42am

Belgian company Parkwind is exploring plans to build a large scale offshore wind farm in South Taranaki. 

Parkwind Country Manager Peter Spencer says that Europe and Australia have already put these systems into place.

'The Europeans are the masters of it. The Australians are doing very well.'

He said these offshore wind farms could be up and running in the next decade.

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