In just over a year, Gamesa and Iberdrola have brought Central America’s largest wind farm online — the 102 MW Cerro de Hula wind farm outside of the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa. Some 36% of Hondurans do not have access to electrical power. Cerro de Hula is projected to boost Honduran generation capacity by 10%.
Offshore wind energy is gaining momentum. As I wrote yesterday here on Cleantechnica, the U.S. is finally looking to move forward fast on this promising clean energy source and the nation’s first offshore wind farm is finally on its way to being built. Just a couple month ago, I wrote … [continued]
Today, a European company put the finishing touches on a wind project in North Dakota which Americans have known for decades is “the Saudi Arabia of Wind.”
Spain’s Iberdrola Renovables, the parent company of Iberdrola Renewables Inc that built the project became a giant global wind company in the wake of the Kyoto Accord. The European renewable energy sector grew from the resulting renewable energy legislation in Europe.
The result is that it is European wind companies such as Vestas and Iberdrola, that are now building the wind energy that we need.
