New Zealand has been nuclear free since legislation was enacted in 1984, and therefore they have to look to other sources for energy. There are currently 11 windfarms around NZ, each having from one to 55 turbines, able to power in total around 145,000 average homes.
Five of the windfarms are located around Palmerston North where we are spending the final two weeks of our stay. They don’t offer tours, but we went to a viewing area for the Te Apiti Windfarm in the scenic hills above the Manawatu Gorge.
Surprisingly, you can only hear a slight swishing noise when standing right under the turbines.
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