Wind

Bolivia turns to wind energy: a power source that Nicaragua reports dampens price hikes

Tuesday, 22 November 2011 Toby Price Bolivia is finally following in the footsteps of its South American neighbours and is preparing for its first wind turbines to start spinning in two years’ time. While initially small, only 2.3 MW, the ...

Eduador

Construction soon to start on first wind farm

Wednesday, 15 June 2011 Toby Price Project construction will begin this year at the Villonaco wind farm in Ecuador, starting with preparing the access roads and embankment where the turbines will be erected. Ecuador's Minister of Electricity ...

Stena to deploy 40 GE wind turbines in southern Sweden

Tuesday, 14 June 2011 REM

Stena Renewable Wind Energy has signed a contract with GE to deploy 40 GE 2.5-100 wind turbines for installation at four new wind farms in southern Sweden.

Turkey

Vestas receives 72 MW turbine order

Wednesday, 11 May 2011

Vestas will supply Turkey’s Ayen Energy with 36 of its 2 MW platform turbines for the new Aksu wind power plant being built in the Turkish city of Kayseri.

Peru

Green light for first wind farm

Monday, 09 May 2011 Toby Price The Ministry of Energy and Mines has given the green light enabling wind farms to soon begin springing up around Peru. According to the Latin American Wind Energy Association (LAWEA), this South American ...

World leader achieves record output in first quarter of 2011

Friday, 06 May 2011 Iberdrola Renovables, the world’s leading wind energy company in terms of installed capacity, produced 7,636 million kilowatt hours (kWh) at its worldwide renewables facilities in the first quarter ...

Honduras

Ground broken on first Honduran wind farm

Friday, 18 February 2011 Toby Price Honduras is reported to be the only country in Central America that supplies all its own electricity needs, and with work starting recently on the new Cerro de Hula wind farm in the municipality of Santa ...

Gamesa sells Polish wind farm to RWE Innogy

Thursday, 13 January 2011 Gamesa has announced the sale of a 32-MW wind farm in Poland to Germany’s RWE Innogy The site, developed and built by Gamesa’s wind farm division, is equipped with 16 Gamesa G90-2.0 MW turbines. ...

Iberdrola Renovables wins contract for nine wind farms in Brazil

Thursday, 02 September 2010 Iberdrola Renovables, in consortium with Neoenergia, a Brazilian energy holding company, and IBERDROLA investee, has been awarded the contract for nine new wind farms in Brazil, with total installed capacity ...

Iberdrola Renovables achieves record wind output in the US

Friday, 16 July 2010 Iberdrola Renovables now has 41 wind farms in the US with an installed capacity of 3,877 MW and has further cemented its position as the second largest sector player in the country. Thanks to this capacity, ...