world wind energy award for Brazil

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05 Oct 2007 - Germany / Argentina

world wind energy award for Brazil

On the occasion of the 6th world wind energy conference 2007 in Mar del Plata, Argentina, the board of the World Wind Energy Association has decided to give the world wind energy award 2007 to Brazil for the successful creation and implementation of the renewable energy incentive programme Proinfa which boosted the development of wind energy utilisation in Brazil.

The Award has been given by WWEA President Dr Anil Kane to the following persons who have all contributed greatly to this achievement:

• The Honourable Ms Dilma Vana Rousseff, Chief of Staff Minister of Brazil and former Minister for Mines and Energy,
• Ms Laura Porto, Director of the Department of Renewable Energy of the Ministry of Mines and Energy,
• Mr Valter Luiz Cardeal, Director of Engineering and current President of Eletrobrás,
• Dr. Sebastião Florentino da Silva, Coordinator of the Unity of the Proinfa Programme at Eletrobrás.

Under the leadership and supervision of the named persons, the existing wind potential of Brazil has become exploited in a way which makes Brazil the leading wind energy country so far in Latin America. Since the introduction of the Proinfa programme, power purchase agreements with a total capacity of 1423 MW have been made which will all be operational by December 2008. Today Brazil has an installed wind energy capacity of 237 MW in total, out of which 208 MW were added in the year 2006, under the Proinfa programme.

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