Meridian Energy, the country's largest renewable energy producer, will continue to renew its seven-year old permit to build the first wind farm in the Hastings district.
The company's resource consent would allow it to build two adjoining wind farms, the first for 75 wind turbines on the Maungaharuru Range and the second for 15 turbines on the neighbouring Titiokura Range.
The development was located off State Highway 5, on the Titiokura Saddle about 35km north west of Napier.
Meridian bought the resource consents to build the wind farms in 2010, from "Hawke's Bay Wind Farm", a company set up by a Wellington firm granted the permits in 2005.
Unison Networks applied for resource consent to build a larger wind farm in 2006, in the same area, but the Environment Court declined the plan.