Ecobreves – CUBA: A Windy Hand from India

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HAVANA, Jun 2 2007 (IPS) - A Cuban program for developing wind energy is among the beneficiaries of a broad cooperation agreement signed in Havana by India's minister of renewable energy, Vilas B. Muttemwar, and Cuba's Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment. The accord covers joint projects in research, scientific exchange in areas of renewable energy sources, and training for Cuban scientists in India.

Conrado Moreno, member of Cuba's Academy of Sciences, told Tierramérica that experts here have drawn up a wind map to determine “the most promising sites”, where work began last year to set up stations to measure wind power.

India is among the four world leaders in generation of wind energy, after Germany, Spain and the United States.