Waipipi Wind Farm

Project overview

Nexans continues to support ElectroNet in providing robust cable solutions for the 31 turbines that make up Tilt Renewables Waipipi windfarm.

The Waipipi Wind Farm project is located approximately 6km south-east of Patea and 8km south-west of Waverley, in the South Taranaki, New Zealand.

The wind farm includes 31 wind turbines connected to the Transpower 110kV network via 11 kilometres of 110kV transmission line to the Waverley Substation.

Drillco were contracted by ElectroNet to perform the cable install, and worked closely with Nexans to fulfill the project's cabling requirements.

This project was completed on time and under budget.

Nexans' Key Success Factors

• Technical consultancy with civil and electrical teams
• Nexans provided a storage solution and facilitated just-in-time delivery with the installer 
• Unique suite of products
• Special cable design
• Our locality meant reduced wait times and the ability for our sales, technical and engineering teams to conduct site visit's, resulting in a stronger partnership with all involved in the project.

Nexans supplied LV and MV power cables as well as fibre optics and aerials for the complete cable solution.