Bolivia puts three wind farms into operation

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The Bolivian government put into operation three wind farms that will contribute 108 megawatts (MW) to the National Interconnected System (SIN) and consolidate the industrialization policy promoted by the country’s president, Luis Arce.

The parks, which have towers 120 meters high and are located in the eastern department (province) of Santa Cruz, are part of a project to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and replace the natural gas that will be industrialized.

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The executive president of the Empresa Nacional de Electricidad Corporación (ENDE Corporación), Marco Antonio Escobar, explained that these works are being carried out within the framework of the reactivation of renewable and clean energy generation projects, which were paralyzed during the de facto government of Jeanine Áñez.

Last Monday, the Bolivian president traveled to Santa Cruz to inaugurate the San Julián Wind Farm in the city of Cotoca.

In his Twitter social network account, the president explained that this project will generate 39.6 MW “and, together with the other two wind projects in Santa Cruz: Warnes and El Dorado, will provide a total of 108 MW.”

In his inauguration speech, Arce highlighted that these parks in the department of Santa Cruz constitute a “essential step (…) on the way to the industrialization (of the country)”.

“We must generate electric energy with other renewable sources, such as wind, solar and others because what we want to do is (…) industrialize our gas, we want to free the gas to industrialize it (…) so that it can be converted into plastics,” he pointed out.

The three wind farms that started operating this week required a state investment of US$ 194,000,000, and there are plans to build other similar ones. Last week, a solar power generation park was inaugurated in Oruro Department, whose production will supply the consumption of that province.

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