Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: Greenpeace Promotes Wind Energy

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BUENOS AIRES, Mar 13 2004 (IPS) - The Argentine affiliate of Greenpeace, the international environmental watchdog, is launching a campaign this month to promote the use of wind energy, with sights on the upcoming meeting of the Johannesburg Renewable Energy Coalition, set for June in Bonn. Argentina has an electricity output capacity of 25,000 megawatts, but “clean” sources represent just one percent. Greenpeace and the Argentine Chamber of Wind Generators (CAGE) maintain that this proportion could reach seven percent by 2013 — with sufficient political will and international cooperation.

Juan Carlos Villalonga, head of the Greenpeace-Argentina energy campaign, told Tierramérica his organization is meeting this month with officials and business executives linked to wind energy in the southern provinces of Santa Cruz and Chubut, and in Buenos Aires.

In those meetings, Greenpeace and CAGE will present an action plan for achieving an output of 3,000 megawatts of wind energy within nine years.