[NYTr] Cuba Breezes Ahead with Wind Energy

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Prensa Latina, Havana
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Cuba Breezes Ahead with Wind Energy

Havana, Sep 25 (Prensa Latina) Most of Cuba's provinces will eventually
benefit from the installation of 100 wind measurement stations to
measuring wind 154 feet above ground in 32 regions, Basic Industry
Ministry technical director Juan M. Presa explained on Tuesday.

At a Havana meeting on renewable energy with Cuban and German experts,
Presa gave detailed information on the contribution of this alternative
energy to counteract climate changes and its importance with the
exhaustion of fossil fuels due to the consumerism and waste of the
industrialized nations.

He announced that, in this phase, the national aeolian map is being
re-elaborated, experiences in Parque Demostrativo in central Turiguano
are being studied and 1.65 Mw air generators are being installed in the
Isle of Youth.

The use of this natural resource has been gradually implemented, but it
has peaked since 2005 when the Cuban Energy Revolution began, in order
to obtain efficiency and save consumption of fuel and lubricants,
despite the US blockade imposed on Cuba nearly half a century ago.

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Cuban Wind Park Makes Headway

Havana, Sept 26 (acn) Cuba's biggest wind park, located in the eastern 
province of Holguin, is 80 percent complete; when finished, it will 
have a power generating capability of 5.1 MW.

In statements to Trabajadores newspaper, Vertice contractor company 
director Pedro Dorta Aguilera said that the construction of the 
facilities is in the final stage and that six 850 KW generators will be 
shortly installed in the park.

The automatic control room and connections linking the wind park to an 
electric substation in the municipality of Gibara are also nearing 
completion.