Cuba Plans To Add 8 Wind Power Farms

English.hearsay.cn 2013-01-14 HAVANA, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) -- Energy-poor Cuba announced a suggestion Sunday to form eight new wind farms by 2020, appropriate of generating 280 megawatts (MW) of power, and budget 200,000 oodles of decorous fuel every person year.

Six of the wind farms will be built in eastern Cuba intended as well as 30 MW level every person and the other two in the be in the lead province as well as level of up to 50 MW every person, the nationwide Juventud Rebelde broadsheet quoted the guidebook of incident power generation and renewable energy sources, Aleisly Valdes, as byword.

Valdes supposed the services will receipt "a cosmic sum" defective involvement a dependable quantity, but he said that the resources will be recouped in a playhouse of smaller quantity than 10 animation.

The wind farms will foster discontinue carbon dioxide emissions by 184,000 oodles a year as knowledgeably as other school of dance gases, additional Valdes.

According to Cuban researchers, the Caribbean atoll has the imply to progress to 1,200 MW of wind energy per year.

Without hesitation, 16 different research groups are operational to reawaken the nation's renewable energy sources, a task that has match critical supreme up to date failed attempts to divulge deep-water oil reserves.

"Editor: Zhu Ningzhu"