Brazil's wind capacity reaches 11 GW in May

May 23 (Renewables Now) - Brazil's installed wind power capacity reached 11.03 GW at the beginning of May, the National Wind Energy Association (Abeeolica) said on Monday.

The country started the fifth month of the year with 443 operational wind parks. It is estimated that 297 wind farms will become operational by 2020, thus adding 6.88 GW of wind power capacity to the Brazilian grid.

According to Abeeolica's monthly bulletin, wind power plants produced 2.69 average gigawatts (GWa) of the 65.35 GWa generated across all energy sources in the country in March 2017.

The document also presented a ranking of the states with the largest wind capacity up until now, with Rio Grande do Norte remaining the top producer with a total capacity of 3,419.6 MW and 126 operational wind parks. Bahia and Ceara followed with 1,898 MW and 1,789 MW, respectively.