Brazil's wind capacity reaches 11 GW in May

May 23 (Renewables Now) - Brazil's installed wind power capacity reached 11.03 GW at the beginning of May, the National Wind Energy Association (Abeeolica) said on Monday.

The country started the fifth month of the year with 443 operational wind parks. It is estimated that 297 wind farms will become operational by 2020, thus adding 6.88 GW of wind power capacity to the Brazilian grid.

According to Abeeolica's monthly bulletin, wind power plants produced 2.69 average gigawatts (GWa) of the 65.35 GWa generated across all energy sources in the country in March 2017.

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