The partners are building the wind plant – which they say will be Chile's largest – via their Parque Eolico El Arrayan (PEEA) consortium.

The project is located about 400km north of Santiago on the Chilean coast, and should come online in early 2014.

Germany's Siemens will provide 50 2.3MW turbines for the wind farm – the same machines that Pattern Energy is using at its other projects around the world.

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