ICE Increases Wind
Power Generation
The Instituto
Costarricense de
Electricidad (ICE) said
it will begin to exploit
wind power by December
2008 with the handing
out of a contract to a
Costa Rican - German
consortium to harness
some 50 megawatts of
power.
The contract was awarded
to the Grupo Corporativo
Saret and Enerwinds de
Costa Rica and the
German company Jiwi.
The consortium has until
December 2009 to have
its plant in operation,
ICE said it plans to
inaugurate the opening
the plant by December
2008, giving the group a
year to be fully
operational, which is
expected to make up the
missing energy power
that the country needs
during the summer
months.
Once the Guanacaste
plant is operations, the
country will be
producing 74 Megawatts
of power produced by
wind.
The cost of the project
is us$63 million dollars
that will see the
installation of 55 wind
generators located on
400 hectares of land
located in Guayabo de
Bagaces.
According to Enrique
Morales, manager for the
project, the windmills
will be produced in
Germany and the first 28
will be in Costa Rican
by June 2008. |
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