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| First phase of Eurus wind farm inaugurated Mexican President Felipe Calderón celebrated the development of the Eurus wind farm project already underway, which will have 250 megawatts (MW) of power production capacity that will be consumed mainly by Cemex. The wind farm represents an investment of US$550 million (approximately €427 million euros) by the Spanish company Acciona. Eurus wind farm is a self-generation project to supply 25% of Cemex Mexico's needs. It has been developed jointly between Cemex and Acciona Energia and will have 167 wind turbines with 1.5MW of capacity each, built by Acciona Windpower. It is located in Juchitan, in the Southern Mexican State of Oaxaca in a 2, 500 hectare area in the Tehuantepec Isthmus, an area well-known for its wind resources. The energy that will be produced by Eurus is estimated to be sufficient to power a Mexican city of half a million inhabitants, reducing CO2 emissions by approximately 600 thousand metric tons each year, which is approximately 25% of the total emissions generated by such a community. Eurus will be one of the largest wind farms in the world and the second largest in terms of emissions reduction registered under the Clean Development Mechanism of the United Nations (Kyoto Protocol). It will also have one of the largest emission reduction indexes per installed capacity in the world. The first phase will be operational in the first quarter of 2009 and the last phase will be operational in the last quarter of 2009. Currently 25 turbines are installed. write your comments about the article :: © 2009 Construction News :: home page |