Vestas announced the opening of a company office in Chile last week. The new office is based in Santiago de Chile, the capital of Chile. The company is making a move into the Chilean wind energy market, and wants to have an office to support its sales and services in the country. The South American continent is very active regarding renewable energy development in the recent years. More and more projects are being developed, a lot of which are wind energy projects. Chile has significant wind energy resources, being a coastal country bordering the Pacific Ocean on the west.

In 2009 alone, Chile increased its installed wind capacity by 140 MW, but there is another 2000 MW of wind capacity under development, as the country progresses on its path to achieve the set goal of 20% renewables by 2020.

[source: Vestas]