Cape Verde to be entirely wind-powered

Britain is to spend £26 million building a wind farm to power the entire Cape Verde, the isolated archipelago off the west coast of Africa.

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With a population of 500 000 stretched over a 1 500 square mile chain of islands, Cape Verde needs a dramatic expansion of its electricity network to support a rapidly expanding tourism industry.

Cape Verde, which is hurricane blighted, has secured... read more...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/capeverde/7360377/Cape-Verde-to-be-entirely-wind-powered.html

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by Damien McElroy, Foreign Affairs Correspondent
Published: 7:22PM GMT 03 Mar 2010

Article submitted by : Yves Dublin,  Assistant Technique Junior, LD Projet CVE/070 - Eau et Assainissement Fogo et Brava, Cap-Vert  et Frédéric Rouffe, Conseiller géographique Cap Vert, Lux-Development, Luxembourg