Northpoint Wind Power Corp’s 40 MW, $95 M wind power project in Aparri, Cagayan is pushing through according to it’s chairman Ferdinand Dumlao. Northpoint Wind Power Corp is a subsidiary of NorthWind Power Development Corp.
The company has already started securing permits from the local government, DENR and DOE while also obtaining pertinent data for the site. The company is also working on for the wind farm to get supply contracts to supply electricity to the Cagayan electric cooperatives.
The wind project’s creditors include investors from Japan, Netherlands and Spain.
NorthWind has prior experience in the field of windpower in the Philippines, having facilitated the expansion of Bangui Bay wind project in Ilocos Norte.
The Aparri site joins the list of wind power projects in the Philippines that can benefit from the passage of the Philippine Renewable Energy Bill.
According to a study conducted by the US Dept of Energy. The Philippines has about 76,000 MW of harvestable of wind power situated in different areas of the country.
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Category: Wind, Clean Energy
