The project was built to serve the unregulatedmarket and its turbines were supplied by German manufacturer Siemens.

InNovember 2012, Fleixeiras was listed by the United Nations Organization as partof the CleanDevelopment Mechanism framework.

“The listing acknowledges the company’s investments’ contribution to clean andsustainable development, enabling it to generate carbon credits for theduration of the facilities’ life,” said Tractebel, a subsidiary of French giantGDF Suez.

Tractebel has 159MW of operational wind farms in Brazil.

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