Latin America
20 April 2012
French technology giant Alstom has been contracted by Odebrecht Energia to supply wind turbines to four projects in the south of Brazil.
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20 April 2012
Latin American small hydro developer Cascade, a subsidiary of utility Rurelec, has agreed to acquire the 255MW Santa Rita project in Peru for $10m.
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12 April 2012
Acciona Windpower, a subsidiary of the Acciona Group, has won its first contract in the southernmost state in Brazil.
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3 April 2012
Australian company Origin Energy has acquired a 51 per cent stake in Chilean hydroelectric development company Energía Austral, from Xstrata Copper.
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3 April 2012
US alternative fuel company Solazyme and agribusiness Bunge have formed a joint venture to build a bio-oil facility in Brazil.
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27 March 2012
Enel Green Power has been awarded with three geothermal exploration concessions in Chile in a major expansion of its activities in the country.
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22 March 2012
German project developer juwi and Chilean engineering company Kaltemp have joined forces to construct Chile’s largest solar power plant.
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21 March 2012
Argentinean energy supplier Emgasud has unveiled plans to invest $1.8bn in to renewable energy over the next ten years.
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20 March 2012
IDB, JICA to launch $600m fund for Central America, Caribbean renewables efforts
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19 March 2012
Argentina-based Keclon, a producer of enzymes that are said to improve the cost of biodiesel fuel, has completed a seed financing round, of an undisclosed amount.
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16 March 2012
Spanish project developer Abengoa has reached an agreement with Brazilian electricity distributor Compañía Energética de Minas Gerais to sell the 50 per cent stake that Abengoa currently holds in a transmission joint venture for €586m.
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16 March 2012
Sweden-based construction company Skanska has signed a contract to build a wind farm in Chile for $76m, to an undisclosed buyer.
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13 March 2012
A Brazilian energy company has revealed it will buy a cogeneration plant at a sugar cane mill as it attempts to become the country’s largest renewable energy supplier and take to the public markets.
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12 March 2012
Wind manufacturer Vestas has received a 396MW order for a wind farm in Mexico, to be named Mareña Renovables.
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27 February 2012
The Macquarie Mexican Infrastructure Fund has secured project financing worth MXN8,885.6m ($686m) for the construction of the 396MW Merena Renovables wind farm in Oaxaca, south-west Mexico.
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24 February 2012
The largest wind farm in Central America has been inaugurated by Globeleq Generation, owned by emerging market private equity firm Actis, in Honduras.
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21 February 2012
A Latin American bank has received $100m to support the rollout of clenatech projects.
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15 February 2012
A Brazilian investment company will double its renewable energy fund as it aims to meet pension fund demand for the wind sector.
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27 January 2012
Mexican photovoltaic manufacturer Solartec Energia Renovable has partnered with US micro-inverter specialist SolarBridge Technologies to distribute alternating current modules in Mexico.
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26 January 2012
The Colombian capital city of Bogota has launched a pilot project to spur the use of electric vehicles in the city’s taxi fleet.
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