the fact that the zones of the country with an abundance of wind are not well connected to the transmission network considerably raises the costs of wind power projects in any event wind farms are expected to be built as legislation comes into force making it compulsory to generate of energy using nonconventional renewable sources by unlike what happened in europe where this technology was developed on the back of public subsidies brazil mexico and other latin american countries have offered the conditions needed for it to compete on price with other energy sources the most recent wind power projects presented in mexico uruguay and brazil have undertaken to sell their electricity at uss uss and uss per mw respectively