Minerco Resources, Inc., a developer of renewable energy in Latin America, has released a business update for its Sayab Wind Project and Iscan Hydro-Electric Project in Honduras.

El Salvador could see the addition of 689 MW of renewable generating capacity through 2026 according to a renewables development master plan.

Argentina-based Impsa’s Brazilian subsidiary Wind Power Energia applied for a $65 million loan from the Inter-American Developmental Bank (IDB) to finance a 65 MW wind project in Uruguay.

Parque Eolico El Arrayan (PEEA) began construction on the 115 MW El Arrayan wind project in Chile.

Gamesa has signed its first deal to supply wind turbines in Uruguay.

Globeleq Generation Limited, a markets power company, announced the acquisition of the 44 MW Eolo wind project in Nicaragua through it’s majority-owned subsidiary, Globeleq Mesoamerica Energy (Wind) Limited.

Alstom has won a $171m contract from Odebrecht Energia to supply four wind farm plants in the South of Brazil.

The global wind industry will install more than 46 GW of new wind energy capacity in 2012.

Acciona Windpower, a unit of Acciona SA, won a contract to supply, install and maintain 40, 3 MW wind turbines in Brazil.

Honduras state power company Enee and Mesoamerica signed an agreement to increase capacity of Mesoamerica’s 102 MW Cerro de Hula wind farm by 25 MW.

Brazil-based CPFL Renováveis has completed the acquisition of four wind farms with a total installed capacity of 120 MW from Spain's Cobra Instalaciones y Servicios in Brazil.

Chile's environmental service SEA has approved Spanish renewable energy company Grupo Ibereólica's environmental impact assessment (EIA) regarding its 170 MW Cabo Leones wind farm project to be located in Chile.

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GE plans to build a $35 million wind turbine assembly plant in Brazil.

AWS Truepower LLC including Central America, Mexico and South America to support wind project development in those markets.

AWS Truepower LLC has announced a $1 million joint venture with Aires Renewables to identify and quantify the wind and solar resources in the San Juan province of Argentina.

The 102 MW Oaxaca II wind farm in Mexico has started operations.

Gamesa and Iberdrola Renewables brought the 102 MW Cerro de Hula wind farm online in Honduras.

Ireland's Mainstream Renewable Power and Chinese wind turbine maker Xinjiang Goldwind Science & Technology Co. have formed a 50-50 joint venture to build a 70 MW wind farm in Chile.