Caparispisan Wind Farm

Caparispisan Wind farm
Country	Philippines
Location	Pagudpud, Ilocos Norte
Status	Operational
Construction began	September 3, 2013
Commission date	November 11, 2014
Operator(s)	North Luzon Renewable Energy Corporation
Wind farm
Type	Onshore
Site area	625 ha (6,250,000 m^2)
Power generation
Units operational	27 X 3 MW
Nameplate capacity	81 MW

Caparispisan Wind Farm is a wind farm in Pagudpud, Ilocos Norte, Philippines. The wind farm was joint venture of AC Energy Holdings Incorporated, the Philippine Alliance for Infrastructure and the UPC Philippines Wind Holdco. The wind farm project amounted to $220 million.^[1]

The wind farm's groundbreaking took place in September 3, 2013 initially planned that the plant be connected to the national grid by June 2014.^[2] The wind farm was fully commissioned by the Energy Regulatory Commission on November 11, 2014 and was later inaugurated in November 19 of the same year. The wind farms has 27 individual wind turbines occupying a 625 hectare land area. AC Energy Holdings Inc. is planning to increase the wind farms capacity to 81 MW (Safety Factored) by 2015.^[1]

Residents belonging to at least 10 families living in barangays Malasin, Abaca and Dadaur of Bangui, Ilocos Norte protested the installation of a 69 km transmission line, which they claimed passes through their land, and demanded for the transmission line to be relocated.^[1][3]

References

1. Lazaro, Freddie (6 January 2015). "Flashback 2014: It was year of wind farm projects in Ilocos Norte". Philippine Information Agency. Archived from the original on 15 February 2015. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
2. Adriano, Leilanie (9 September 2013). "81-MW wind farm to rise in Pagudpud". Ilocos Times. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
3. Adriano, Leilani (21 November 2014). "Protest greets launch of another wind project". Wind Watch. Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retrieved 15 February 2015.