Iberdrola Renovables has been awarded a contract for developing nine wind farms in Brazil, totalling in 258 MW of installed capacity. The contract has been awarded after Iberdrola was announced as the winner of the tender by Agencia Nacional de Energía Eléctrica (Aneel).

Iberdrola Renovables will be developing the wind farms in a consortium with Neoenergia, a Brazilian holding company. Once completed, in January 2013, Iberdrola is to supply the Brazilian government with electricity generated at the wind farms for twenty years.

The tender awarded a total of 50 wind farm projects (about 1.5 GW), five hydroelectric plant projects (101 MW), and a biomass facility (64 MW), to a variety of operators.

[source: Iberdrola Renovables]