The national power company UTE (Administración Nacional de Usinas y Trasmisiones Eléctricas) of Uruguay has awarded Vengano S.A. (Consortium formed by Grupo Sanjose (40%), Corporación America (40%) and Contreras Hermanos (20%) the execution, development and maintenance during the following 20 years of a wind farm of 40 MW in the country department of Maldonado, consisting of 14 wind turbines with a generating capacity of 3MW each.
Vengano will run the wind farm for the following 20 years by applying a concession model which ensures a fixed rate for each generated MW/h.
The wind power contract type is that used by the national power company UTE in the awarding in 2011 to Fingano S.A. (Grupo SANJOSE 40%, Corporación America 40% and Contreras Hermanos 20%) of another wind farm of 50 MW (25 wind turbines with a generating capacity of 2 MW each) located in the country department of Maldonado.
By José Santamarta, www.evwind.com
