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Lafarge cements move to wind power

By Fiona Harvey in London

Published: September 18 2005 17:42 | Last updated: September 18 2005 17:42

The world's first cement plant to be powered by wind energy has been built by Lafarge in Morocco.

The plant at Tetouan, costing about €10m ($12.2m) to build, has 12 wind turbines delivering more than 10MW of electricity, about half of the cement plant's requirements.

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