Vestas Sees Chile’s Wind-Power Capacity Doubling Amid Boric’s Reforms
- Permitting has become ‘increasingly complex,’ executive says
- Future turbines will be larger, quieter to counter pushback
Gabriel Boric
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Chilean President Gabriel Boric’s efforts to cut red tape for new investments would help the country more than double its wind-power capacity during the next decade, one of the world’s largest wind turbine makers estimates.
Vestas Wind Systems A/S expects to see about 10 gigawatts of wind power in the nation by 2033, according to Andres Gismondi, the company’s head for the southern cone region of South America. That would be up sharply from roughly 4.8 GW of installed capacity at the end of 2023, data from BloombergNEF show.