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Up until now, all the wind farms in Galicia have had less than 50 MW. This is why they were authorized by the Xunta de Galicia. However, a few years ago some promoters began the procedure requesting authorization from the Ministry for several wind farms. Little is presently known about these initial attempts. Over the

The Galician Wind Observatory (GWO) and the participating respective Presidents of the Juana de Vega and Isla Couto Foundations, Enrique Sáez and Manuel Meixide, made the content of the Standard Contract (SC) public to Galician society. After years of observation, analysis and participation in numerous wind development processes throughout rural Galicia, the Galician Wind Observatory

Today the Juana de Vega Foundation, in collaboration with the Isla Couto Foundation and the University of Vigo, presented the GWO report “Economic impact of wind energy on the Galician rural environment: context, changes and opportunities”. The GWO is an initiative supported by the aforementioned Foundations through an agreement with the University of Vigo developed

The Galician Wind Observatory consistently compiles and analyzes the administrative processes of all wind farms throughout the Galician territory. As a result, the GWO has detected a significant rise in expropriation processes across Galicia over the last two years with about 20 wind farms adding more than 400 MW of wind power. This is a

Damián Copena, researcher of the Galician Wind Observatory, has recently written a chapter in the book Associativismo em Áreas Comunitárias (Associativism in Communitary Areas), published by the association Federação Nacional dos Baldios-BALADI. The chapter, entitled “Activities promoted or interfering with the waste by means of a lease agreement: the wind farms”, analyzes the processes linked