Using its own resources, Cuba will soon start building its first eolian park in a northeastern coastal area, which is ideal to develop that alternative energy source from wind activity.

Vladimir Alvarez, a specialist of the Integral Directive Board of the Eolian Project in Holguin, told Prensa Latina ground movement will start in August on the Gibara coast, where six generators will be placed.

That equipment will generate 5.1 megawatts, although the eolian-electrical potential in Holguin is over 500 megawatts, equivalent to the production of the generating units of Lidio Ramon Perez thermoelectric station in Felton area in the same province.

Park operations will begin in early 2007, with a design to take advantage of the trade winds from the Atlantic Ocean, which reach this area perpendicularly.

Holguin Engineering Company (INEL) was in charge of the project of 11 experimental stations have been established to encourage the use of wind energy.

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