An order of Environment Court Judge Jon Jackson received by the Otago Daily Times on Monday stated the appeals were "allowed in part" and the appeal was "otherwise dismissed".
The council introduced 23 district plan changes last year, termed plan change five, that mostly concerned greater protection against development of rural land.
Pioneer Generation and Contact Energy both appealed four of those changes - 5A, 5C, 5D and 5P.
In December last year, the two parties and the council entered into mediation and the outcome was amendments to the plan.
Council planning consultant David Whitney said that, before the amendments, the council had basically written the clauses and then cross-referenced them to each section, but now those clauses would effectively be written out in full where applicable, instead of cross-referenced.
A slight wording change to another clause had also been agreed upon.
Judge Jackson also noted that there were unresolved appeals relating to plan change five which were continuing through the court process.
Mr Whitney said those appeals, of which Pioneer Generation and possibly Contact Energy were parties to, were to be heard by the court later this year.
They were in relation to the Nevis Valley, which the council classified in its district plan as an outstanding landscape except for the valley floor which was classed as a significant amenity landscape.
Originally, seven organisations appealed to the Environment Court against one or more of the changes.
As well as Pioneer and Contact, they were the Otago Fish and Game Council, Meridian Energy, New Zealand Historic Places Trust, Solid Energy and Horticulture New Zealand.
Up to 16 other groups or individuals later joined the appeals as interested parties.
