Central & Latin America

Clarion Energy has unveiled today unveiled Enlit – the new name for European Utility Week and POWERGEN Europe – in front of 18,000 industry leaders in Paris Expo Porte de Versailles.

A contract totalling $627,000 for the provision of software controls and energy storage for Energias Limpias De CentroAmerica (ELCA) as part of their Energy-as-a-Service (EaaS) project has been awarded to CleanSpark.

Naturgy has contracted with Eliq to deliver a 12- month customer engagement project for its subsidiary CGE, Chile’s largest electricity utility.

General Electric has been awarded a contract to supply 132.5 MW of wind turbines from its Cypress platform to EDF Renewables in Brazil.

Cubico has announced that it has reached operations on a 600 MW renewable portfolio in Mexico.

The Department of Water and Sewage of Americana in Sao Paulo, Brazil has embarked on an initiative to reduce water loss in partnership with Itron.

After no less than 5 turbines collapses in both North and South America in 2019 left many in the wind energy industry scratching their heads, a top GE engineer, who has led the company’s investigations into the incidents, has shared findings, noting that in the case of the first four turbine collapses, several factors were to blame, rather than “a single systemic issue”.

EIB to provide Brazil with a EUR 150 million credit to boost the country’s portfolio of renewable energy.

Colombia’s upcoming energy auction for large-scale solar and wind projects has drawn interest from no-less than 27 companies

Another collapse of a GE turbine, brings the number of turbines to have failed in America’s to five in 2019.