Tag: wind farm

• Monday, November 4th 2013 - 00:30 UTC

  IDB financing for private sector 90 MW wind farms in Uruguay

  

  The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) approved a private sector loan for up to 132.6 million to partially finance the construction of the Carapé I and II wind farms in Uruguay.

• Saturday, August 10th 2013 - 01:58 UTC

  UK opens second largest offshore wind farm in the world

  

  Greater Gabbard wind farm, which is reportedly the second largest offshore wind farm in the world, costing £1.3 billion and generating enough clean electricity to power over half a million homes, was officially opened off the British coast of Suffolk by the Energy and Business Minister Michael Fallon.

• 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.

• Saturday, April 21st 2012 - 06:57 UTC

  Uruguay and Brazil agree to jointly develop and expand wind power

  

  Uruguay and Brazil agreed this week to jointly set up a 100MW wind farm in Uruguayan territory demanding an investment of 200 million dollars and which should become operational by 2013.

• Tuesday, December 6th 2011 - 18:49 UTC

  Boom of the wind power energy in north-east Brazil: 11.2 MW by 2014

  

  Brazil is going through a wind power boom as production prices fall and government incentives attract a growing number of foreign suppliers. The wind power sector has a current capacity of around 1,400 megawatts, and is expected to grow nearly eight-fold by 2014, according to the Brazilian Association of Wind Energy ABEEolica.

• Saturday, October 1st 2011 - 01:12 UTC

  CFK opens Argentina’s largest wind farm in Patagonia: 80MW

  

  President Cristina Fernandez opened Friday in Patagonia the largest wind farm in Argentina. The Rawson Aeolic Park will eventually generate 80 MW sufficient to supply 100.000 homes according to the private investors.

• Saturday, September 10th 2011 - 06:29 UTC

  Uruguay offered cheaper power from private wind-farm developers

  

  Uruguay could enjoy 1.3 billion dollars of wind farms in the next four years after developers said they could provide electricity cheaper than conventional energy sources.

• Thursday, August 18th 2011 - 23:58 UTC

  Historic win for wind energy in Brazilian government power auction

  

  Wind farms have come out on top in the latest round of power auctions organized by Brazil’s government. Slowly letting go of government protection to compete head-to-head with historically cheaper fossil fuel energy, the wind power sector indicated its potential strength.

• Tuesday, August 2nd 2011 - 12:50 UTC

  Spanish group receives soft funding to expand wind farms in south of Brazil

  

  Spain’s Elecnor group is building more wind power plants in Brazil’s southern state of Rio Grande do Sul totalling an estimated 300 MW. The undertaking was boosted by funding from Brazil economic and social development bank, BSDES)

• 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.