Wind generator to be replaced
The Port Hills windpowered electricity generator will be replaced, the Port Hills Energy Authority announced yesterday. The Danish-built machine was New Zealand’s first commercial wind power plant, but it generated electricity for only a month before it toppled from its 19-metre tower just before Christmas. The authority’s director of engineering, Mr lan Bywater, said yesterday that it had been decided
to replace it, although an engineer’s report on the reasons for the mishap had not yet been received. Mr Bywater said that it was decided to replace it when the suppliers, ASEA Electricity, Ltd, offered to supply a new generator of the same design. That was now on the way from Wellington and would arrive “any day.” The authority would decide whether the tower itself needed strengthening, once the engineer’s report was available, said Mr Bywater.
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