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• Science and Technology
• 05 / 27 / 2007

Besides the installation opened in the Isle of Youth in February, 2007, another one is being built in the city of Gibara, in Holguin province northern coast, with six generators, while another station in that same province has been planned.

They three, together with the installation that is has been operating in Turiguano island since 1999, will modestly contribute in mid 2008, 11,7 megawatts, but feasibility studies are being carried out to reach higher levels of wind-driven generators in the future, they asserted.

According to the experts, those windfarms were conceived to gain experience in the negotiation, construction, assembly, implementation, and operation of several technologies, as a starting point for the country's eolian development.

Source: Prensa Latina