San Antonio El Sitio Wind Power Project is the first wind project located in the Guatemalan region. The project deploys sixteen units of WTGs of Vestas technology and delivers an average of 122 GWh of green electricity to the regional grid. The projects not only increases energy supply in the region reducing electricity costs, but also assists in conservation of resources, local community development and the reduction of greenhouse gas emission into the atmosphere. The project contributes to an approximate reduction of 82,902 tonnes of CO2 emissions per year by displacing an equivalent amount of electricity generation at the grid. In absence of this project, the equivalent amount of electricity would have been generated from conventional power plants based on fossil fuels. With the implementation of the project, local communities have been benefited with employment, health, education, improved infrastructure and socio-economic development in the area.

Project Impacts and Benefits:

Increased energy supply in region

Reduced electricity costs

Technology transfer and coordination with other wind energy implementers

Local employment generation, making the employment of people from the neighboring community a priority.

Local infrastructure development through the creation of local schools and sport facilities.