Genesis Energy has finalized a deal for using 30,000 hectares of land in order to start a wind farm near Masterton in the northern Wairarapa. The Company now is looking forward to receive a resource approval. The Castle Hill site is capable of 600 megawatts of electricity generation.

Genesis would file its application for resource approval by mid of 2011.  The application would include the details about construction and operation activities of the project, as the exact number of turbines, their sizes and location is not decided, yet.

The Company’s 1448 MW Huntly thermal power station is capable of producing almost 20% of total energy in the country.

At present, the Company has the possession of 8.65 megawatt Hau Nui wind farm based in southern Wairarapa.

It had been eyeing the Castle Hill farm from 2009. Gensis has finalized the deal with 27 land owners. The site includes two district borders and two regional council borders.

Albert Brantley, Chief Executive has declared that earlier the plan was for generating 400 MW only. He also said that this project would be built in several stages. He has provided this information through an email.

The Company aims at constructing renewable energy generation of 300MW by the year 2015.