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04.05.2015
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Brazil becomes more and more green: Cristalândia wind project borns thanks to the Italian company Enel Green Power

The perspectives for the wind project are 90 MW of wind capacity installed and 190 million US dollars invested are.
The new 90 MW Cristalândia wind project in Brazil has born thanks to Enel Green Power, the Italian company dedicated to the generation of renewable energy that gained the public auction Leilão de Fontes Alternativas in Brazil. Enel Green Power is going to sign, with some Brazilian electricity distribution companies, 20-year power supply contracts that will bring Brazil to produce 90 MW of wind capacity installed.

Enel Green Power built a diversified presence of wind, hydro and solar power in Brazil, also combining the plants in the same production site, and sees Brazil as a strategic country for the company. Francesco Venturini, Enel Green Power CEO, is proud to announce the successful outcome of this tender, which brings Enel Green Power up to nearly 700 MW won in Brazilian wind power auctions since 2010.

190 million US dollars is the expected investment to realize Cristalândia wind project, that will be realized in Bahia, in the north-east of Brazil. In this zone, Enel Green Power already manages approximately 260 MW of wind power projects that are either operating or under construction, as well as over 254 MW of solar photovoltaic and a further 200MW of wind projects awarded in public tenders held in 2014.

Over 350 GWh per year energy will be produced and over 100.000 tonnes of CO2 annual emissions into the atmosphere will be avoided.

These are the aims for the new wind project, that will be completed and enter into service in 2017.