Caparispisan Wind Farm, also known as the North Luzon Renewables Wind Farm, is a

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Pagudpud Pagudpud, officially the Municipality of Pagudpud ( ilo, Ili ti Pagudpud; fil, Bayan ng Pagudpud), is a 4th class municipality in the province of Ilocos Norte, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 25,098 people. It i ...

, Ilocos Norte,

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. The wind farm was a joint venture of AC Energy Holdings, the Philippine Alliance for Infrastructure and the UPC Philippines Wind Holdco. The wind farm project amounted to $220 million. The wind farm's groundbreaking took place on September 3, 2013, initially planned that the plant be connected to the national grid by June 2014. The wind farm was fully commissioned by the

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on November 11, 2014, and was later inaugurated on November 19 of the same year. The wind farms has 27 individual wind turbines occupying a 625 hectare land area. AC Energy Holdings Inc. planned to increase the wind farms capacity to 81 MW (Safety Factored) by 2015. Residents belonging to at least 10 families living in

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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.

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