New Zealand energy company TrustPower is to proceed with construction of its $200 million wind farm on the Hummocks and Barunga Ranges, west of Snowtown; start date is set for April.

TrustPower last Friday reported it had finalised plans for the construction of 42 wind turbines, stage one of a possible 130-turbine project.

Stage one will have an 88 megawatt capacity, enough to power 60,000 South Australian homes. It will use only about one-third of the available wind farm site, leaving the opportunity for further stages in the future.

First mooted publicly in 2003, the Barunga Wind Farm was originally... [continue via Web link]