Together the investments will require $400m of AES equity over five years. Some $120m of the equity will be invested to bring 200MW into construction by the end of 2011.

“These investments will begin contributing to our growth in 2012 and beyond,” says Paul Hanrahan, president and chief executive of parent group AES Corporation.

Your Energy brings a development pipeline of more than 300MW, of which AES Wind plans to begin construction on 48MW by the end of 2010.

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