Insurers to meet wind turbine costs

Windflow Technology's insurers will pay the full cost of reinstating the company's prototype wind turbine, which was severely damaged by a freak wind shift in March.

Insurers NZI are processing a progress payment of $395,000 and Windflow expects the final cost of reinstatement to exceed $500,000.

Windflow chief executive Geoff Henderson said the company was back on track to complete the first turbines for the 97-turbine Te Rere Hau wind farm near Palmerston North this summer.