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Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Promoting Wind Energy

TEGUCIGALPA, Dec 19 2005 (IPS) - The first wind-generated power plant in Honduras will begin operating in late 2006 on Hula hill, south of the capital, and will supply Tegucigalpa and the surrounding areas with electricity.

“The plant will be ready to open in 10 months,” Jorge Fidel Rivera, of the U.S. company Clipper Windpower Inc., told Tierramérica. The firm is entrusted with construction of the power facility, which has a price tag of 85 million dollars.

This is just one of several projects that the Honduran government and business sector will promote in the coming year, as an alternative source of energy.

Jorge Morazán, from the renewable energy division of the government's national electrical energy agency, ENEE, told Tierramérica that the wind projects are a positive move because, in addition to contributing to a sustainable environment, they will allow the country to save on energy expenditures