One wind turbine provides 2 MW of capacity.
The new wind farms are set to raise the company’s installed capacity in Hungary to 124 MW. IBERDROLA RENOVABLES already operates the Kisigmand site, also in the Komárom-Esztergom county. With 50 MW of capacity, the wind farm is Hungary’s largest.
Its presence in the wind farm business in Eastern Europe is part of the company’s strategy to grow profitably and expand to other countries, focusing particularly on the US and Europe.
IBERDROLA RENOVABLES already has 160.5 MW of installed capacity in Poland, where it has six wind farms. The company is now developing a wind farm in the Lüganuse municipality, Estonia; with capacity of 150 MW.
IBERDROLA RENOVABLES has opened an office in Bucharest, Romania, and has a 1,600 MW project pipeline across 50 sites in the country’s Dobrogea region. The company is also developing new sites in Bulgaria.
IBERDROLA RENOVABLES ended the third quarter of 2009 with 10,477 MW of installed capacity across 23 countries, strengthening its position as the world’s leading wind energy company.
In addition, at the end of the first half of 2009 the company had a project pipeline of over 56,600 MW, which has the following geographic distribution: 42% of the pipeline is in the US, 25% in Spain, 9% in the UK and 24% in the rest of the world.
