The IDB will put $66m behind the El Libertador project in the Uruguayan department of Lavalleja. The 65MW wind farm is being developed by WPE, a subsidiary of Argentina’s Impsa, which will deploy 44 of its own turbines.

Spain’s Abengoa will get $41m to help finance construction of the 50MW Palmatir wind farm in Tacuarembó, which will use 25 Gamesa machines.

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