Upon completion, the wind farm is capable of generating more than 200 million kWh of power a year, avoiding the atmospheric emission of more than 62 thousand tonnes of CO2.
Melowind will have a load factor of more than 47%, equivalent to more than 4,100 hours of generation a year.
The new wind farm will cost about $98m.
UTE (Administración Nacional de Usinas y Trasmisiones Eléctricas) will purchase the electricity produced by the wind farm under a 20-year power purchase agreement that has already been signed.
Enel Green Power CEO Francesco Venturini said, "The start of work on the Melowind plant, together with the opening of EGP offices in the country, mark our entry into the promising market of Uruguay, a country with abundant natural resources, rapid economic and demographic growth and a stable regulatory framework. These characteristic represent the drivers of our growth strategy, which is based on technological and geographical diversification and provides for us to enter one or two new high-p otential markets each year."
