Gamesa has recently finished completing the Bii Nee Stipa Wind Farm for Enel Green Power in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. Centered within the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Oaxaca, an area with high wind capacity of 40%, the wind farm will have a total installed wind capacity of 74 … [continued]
Vestas is to supply 39.6-MW of wind turbines, service and maintenance for Alba de Nicaragua’s Alba Rivas wind farm in Hacienda La Fe. Latin American wind energy markets are growing in importance as Europe struggles with its debt woes and the key US wind energy production tax credit is unlikely to be renewed by the end of the year.
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%.
