Tag: Vestas

• Tuesday, June 25th 2013 - 18:28 UTC

  Piñera opens joint-largest wind-farm in the north of Chile

  

  President Sebastian Piñera inaugurated Chile’s joint-largest wind farm at an official ceremony. The 90MW Talinay East facility is owned by Italy’s Enel Green Power and features 45 Vestas V100 2MW turbines in the country’s central Coquimbo region, 400 kilometres north of Santiago.

• Tuesday, June 4th 2013 - 05:07 UTC

  Uruguayan forestry company buys turbines for a 90 MW wind farm

  

  Denmark’s Vestas Wind Systems wind-turbine maker received a 90-megawatt turbine order from Compañia Forestal Uruguaya SA for the Pintado power plant in south centre Uruguay. The 30 3-megawatt turbines project will be serviced by the company for 15 years and the farm is expected to be operational by the second quarter of next year.

• Tuesday, January 8th 2013 - 00:04 UTC

  Uruguay wants to become one of the world’s leading wind power producers

  

  The Uruguayan government has set its sights on becoming one of the world's leading wind power producers as part of plans to produce 90% of its electricity from renewable sources by 2015, although much of the plan is still on the drawing board.

• Tuesday, August 9th 2011 - 12:51 UTC

  Leading wind turbine maker to establish assembly plant in Brazil

  

  Danish wind turbine maker Vestas is to establish its first assembly plant in Brazil and expects it to be operational in the fourth quarter.

• Tuesday, July 19th 2011 - 13:16 UTC

  Northeast Brazil invests in wind energy, operational by December 2012

  

  Denmark-based Vestas has secured an order from a consortium created by Brennand Energia and Companhia Hidro Eletrica do Sao Francisco in the north east of Brazil to supply turbines with a total capacity of 90MW for three wind energy projects.