EDPR records 13% rise in 2017 generation

PORTUGAL: Developer EDP Renovaveis (EDPR) produced 27.6TWh of almost exclusively wind-generated electricity in 2017, a 13% increase on 2016, thanks to a rise in installed capacity in most of its markets.

by Richard Weyndling 24 January 2018

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The company added 600MW of new capacity last year with the biggest increases in North America and Brazil.

An additional 424MW in North America boosted output by 20% year on year while, in Brazil, output rose by 9% on the back of 127MW of additional capacity.

As of December 2017, a further 828MW of wind capacity was under construction with North America and Brazil, accounting for almost 75%.

Significantly, EDPR is building 68MW of new onshore wind capacity in Spain, a market that has been stagnant in recent years as a result of the government's retroactive cuts in renewable support and elimination of feed-in tariffs for new wind projects.

EDPR also put the increase down to a marginally-improved load factor at its sites.