Wind energy projects progress in Camagüey

The implementation of 13 projects, added to the four parks built experimentally, show the progress made today in Camagüey province, which aims to expand the exploitation of wind energy as an alternative to fossil fuels.

The execution of 13 projects, added to the four parks built experimentally, show the progress today in Camagüey, which aims to expand the exploitation of wind energy.

Cuba, which has high hopes for renewable resources, ecological and economic routes in times of the U.S. tight trade blockade, aspires to have 24 percent of its electricity generation through these sources by 2030.

In the case of this largest region of Cuba, with 16,000 square kilometers, the construction of a wind energy park in Puerto Piloto, in the north of Camagüey province, a space with great potential, according to the Center for Studies on Renewable Energy Technologies, is being prepared.

The investment of foreign capital will be vital in this construction program, but funding is still being sought to carry it out finally.

The intentions of the government of the largest of the Antilles are of interest to the world community, as recently reflected by the minister of International Relations and the Francophonie of Quebec, Canada, Nadine Girault, who ratified the ties with Cuba before the head of Science, Technology and Environment of the island, Elba Rosa Pérez.

The national electro-energetic system intends to expand the generation of wind energy, therefore the technical training of specialists in new technologies increases, with the intention of exploiting biomass and building new hydroelectric plants throughout the island.

Thanks to renewable sources, Cuba in 2018 managed to generate 151,980 MWh of clean energy equivalent to saving 32,873 tons of diesel.

(Taken from RHC in Spanish)

Written by Radio Grito de Baire