That wind blowing up dust in your eyes and trash around your feet is soon going to be generating electricity. The “green breeze” could happen as soon as the end of this year. A European wind power consortium recently made a deal with the Ministry of Energy and Mines to invest $72 million for a wind farm in Rivas, near the shores of Lake Nicaragua.
You won’t be able to miss it as you drive along the Pan-Am Highway. Nineteen 80-meter tall towers with three 44-meter blades will scoop power from the breezes off the lake: up to 2.1 megawatts each. The electricity produced, to be sold to the national grid, is equivalent over a year to what would come from burning 217,000 barrels of bunker C.



