Companies to Build Huge Wind Farm In Oaxaca

From Latin American Herald Tribune:

Grupo Bimbo, the world’s biggest producer of baked goods, and Spain’s Renovalia Energy plan to build the largest wind farm operated by a food company in the world, meeting 100 percent of the company’s energy needs in Mexico.

The wind farm will cost around $200 million and is expected to begin operating in 2011, Grupo Bimbo said.

The Piedra Larga wind farm will have generating capacity of 90 MW and supply electricity to 65 plants and other facilities operated by the baking company, Grupo Bimbo said......

The wind farm will be located in Union Hidalgo, a town in the southern state of Oaxaca, and will be built under a strategic alliance whose partners include the federal government, private interests and banks, the company said.

“The construction of this wind farm is the cornerstone in our effort to continue growing with nature’s force; making us the first company in the food industry to make this great change to use renewable energy sources,” Bimbo CEO Daniel Servitje said.

I wish the US was doing more of this.  Think of it, this is Mexico building green energy plants and it has its own oil company, Pemex.  And in Oaxaca, no less.  ¡Viva!