Puketoi Wind Farm
The Puketoi Wind Farm is a proposed wind farm project in the Tararua District of New Zealand. The project is planned by Mercury Energy. History. Mercury Energy (then known as Mighty River Power) applied for resource consent for the project in August 2011. Consent for 53 turbines and a transmission line was granted in June 2012. Three appeals against the project were withdrawn in June 2013. Mighty River said they did not expect to begin construction for three to five years. In March 2019 Mercury announced that development of the nearby Turitea Wind Farm would support the  future development of Puketoi. In March 2021 Mercury had no estimate completion date for the project. Location. The proposed site is in the Puketoi Ranges, approximately 40km south of Dannevirke. The site will be connected to Mercury's existing Turitea Wind Farm with a 220 kV transmission line.