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Cuba to Build Its First Eolian Park
Using its own resources, Cuba
will soon start building its first eolian park in a northeastern coastal
area, which is ideal to develop that alternative energy source from wind
activity.
Vladimir Alvarez, a specialist of the Integral Directive Board of the
Eolian Project in Holguin, told Prensa Latina ground movement will start
in August on the Gibara coast, where six generators will be placed.
That equipment will generate 5.1 megawatts, although the eolian-electrical
potential in Holguin is over 500 megawatts, equivalent to the production
of the generating units of Lidio Ramon Perez thermoelectric station in
Felton area in the same province.
Park operations will begin in early 2007, with a design to take
advantage of the trade winds from the Atlantic Ocean, which reach this
area perpendicularly.
Holguin Engineering Company (INEL) was in charge of the project of 11
experimental stations have been established to encourage the use of wind
energy.
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