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Preparing for a development spree -- Brazil's 1050 MW decree

Wind industry players are jostling shoulders for access to the wind power purchase contracts expecte...

Greenpeace Argentina urges Shell to keep investment promise

Greenpeace is campaigning in Argentina for Anglo-Dutch oil company Shell to urgently invest in wind ...

More Brazil manufacturing

Brazilian Wobben Windpower is stepping up production of blades and wind turbines with the opening of...

Brazil orders one thousand megawatt -- Instant industry response to government's wind power decree

Brazil's government is calling for the implementation of 1050 MW of installed wind capacity by Decem...

German subsidiary to build three new plant

Brazil's Santa Catarina state distributor, Celesc, has signed contracts with Wobben Windpower for th...

In dire need of more power

Brazil depends on hydro sources for over 90% of its power and low rainfall has seen water levels fal...

Market expands for developer

Such are the positive market perspectives in Brazil that local wind power developer Enerbras has exp...

Utility privatisation leads to sell off

Thirty per cent of a Brazilian wind plant operator Centrais Eólicas do Paraná is caugh...

Oil company launches tender for wind projects

Oil company Petrobras, which in the power sector concentrates activities on stakes in natural gas an...

A huge new market stirs

Brazil is seriously attempting to kick-start a wind power market -- and to judge by the reaction of ...

Wind plant to offset high diesel costs

To offset the high fuel purchase costs of diesel plant used in much of Chile's remote Region XI, dis...

German Fuhrländer plans factory in Brazil with high hopes for market

German wind turbine manufacturer Fuhrländer has such high hopes of the wind power market in Sou...

Utility plans competitive wind plant on Columbia's Caribbean coast

A 24.7 MW wind station on the Guajira peninsula of Colombia's Caribbean coast is being planned by lo...

Problems ahead for Argentina ambitions -- Utilities announce 3000 MW plan

Power giant Endesa Spain and fellow Spanish company Elecnor have signed agreements to create a joint...

Government sets high wind tariff -- Ecuador boost to financing

Ecuador's electricity regulator, Conelec, has given wind power a huge boost by passing new regulatio...

Spanish turbines for utility project

Argentine utility SCPL and Spanish wind turbine manufacturer Gamesa Eólica will start install...

Chilean water and environment trade fair invites wind companies to exhibit

The AguaExpo water and environment trade fair in Chilean capital Santiago in July is inviting wind c...

Argentina implements rural renewable energy funding program

Argentina's energy secretariat signed agreements in December with the provinces of Chubut, Rí...

Rio de Janeiro wind resources to be mapped by Spanish developer

Brazil's Rio de Janeiro state's secretariat for energy, naval industry and oil has signed an agreeme...

Interim government promoting sustainable energy

Peru's interim government will promote the use of all energy sources that are environmentally and ec...

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