A 12-month adjournment is being sought by Contact Energy to an inquiry into its proposed 180-turbine wind farm on Waikato's west coast.

At a board of inquiry meeting tomorrow it would ask for the break, to permit it to conduct more research, geotechnical assessments and surveying work for the project south of Port Waikato.

Te Akau farmer Ross Townshend said, "Contact's decision was a significant victory for opponents as it showed the project was "underdone and undercooked."

He further told that a12-month adjournment gave opponents more time to fight the project and he would be demanding the power company forfeit its right to the board of inquiry and go through the usual Resource Management Act process just like everybody else.

Contact spokesman Johnathan Hill said that the company was committed to the project still however would not commit as to whether the adjournment would be granted.

(Via TopNews New Zealand. Contributed by Omaka Nelson)