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Goldwind Americas appoints new CEO

Goldwind Americas, the US-based division of Chinese turbine manufacturing major Goldwind, has promot...

Two wind projects in Uruguay purchased by Cubico

Cubico Sustainable Investments, an investment group backed by Spanish banking major Santander, has c...

WEG and Petrobras join forces to develop Brazil's biggest onshore wind turbine

Brazil-based turbine manufacturer WEG has formed a strategic alliance with Petrobras to develop a 7M...

Mainstream uses force majeure to terminate PPA for Chilean wind project

Authorities have approved Mainstream Renewable Power’s early termination of a power purchase agreeme...

Indigenous community to take stake in Colombia’s first wind farm

Colombian utility Empresas Publicas de Medellin (EPM) has agreed to pass a stake in its 19.5MW Jepir...

Wind project begins supplying power to industrial clients in Brazil

Developer Casa dos Ventos has begun commercial operations at its 360MW Babilônia Sul wind project in...

Analysis: Golden decade for Chilean renewables becomes ‘perfect nightmare’ as firms face financial ruin

After a golden decade, Chile’s renewable industry boom is facing a reckoning and some of its biggest...

Brazilian court suspends Voltalia wind project over endangered parrot

A court has suspended environmental licenses granted to Voltalia’s 407.4MW Canudos wind complex in t...

Steel giant takes majority stake in 554MW Brazilian project

Steel giant ArcelorMittal has signed a joint venture with Brazilian developer Casa dos Ventos to bui...

Chinese wind turbine firm considers $29m manufacturing facility in Brazil

Goldwind has signalled its intention to build a turbine factory in the Brazilian state of Bahia foll...

Siemens Gamesa pauses production at wind turbine nacelle factory in Brazil

Siemens Gamesa has ‘hibernated’ operations at a nacelle manufacturing plant in Brazil to match a cur...

Oil majors Equinor and Petrobras to scope 14.5GW offshore wind off Brazil

Norwegian oil major Equinor and Brazilian state oil company Petrobras will explore seven offshore wi...

EDP Renewables plans €20 billion investments to supercharge portfolio

Portuguese energy major EDP Renewables will ramp up investment in the coming years, forecasting €20 ...

Total Eren to build one of Honduras’s largest wind farms

French renewables developer Total Eren has acquired one of Honduras’ largest wind farms and signed a...

Statkraft acquires first wind project in Peru

Statkraft has entered wind power in Peru by acquiring a 72MW project that could be extended with a w...

2022: Windpower Monthly's review of the year

Windpower Monthly rounds up some of the major developments in the wind industry during 2022....

TotalEnergies and Casa dos Ventos to develop 12GW renewables portfolio

French oil supermajor, TotalEnergies (TTE) and Brazilian developer, Casa dos Ventos (CDV) have creat...

GIP buys Latin American wind and solar developer Atlas Renewable Energy

Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) has acquired renewables developer Atlas Renewable Energy from s...

Engie to buy 880MW onshore wind farm in Brazil

French developer’s Brazilian unit grows renewables pipeline with deal for large wind farm in north-e...

Turbine maker Vestas to source blades from GE’s LM Wind Power in Brazil

Danish turbine manufacturer explains sharing manufacturing operations ensures factories do not sit i...