The Yeong Yang facility, located in the region of North Gyeongsang, has 41 x 1.5 MW wind turbines, with a tower height of 80 m and a rotor sweep diameter of 77 m. The assembly and commissioning of the turbines began in the second half of 2008, and is now complete following the grid connection of the last wind turbine.

The park is registered by the United Nations under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) for a period of ten years, during which time the facility will avoid the emission of an estimated 1.11 million tonnes of CO2.

Acciona has a second wind project in Karnataka in India that has qualified under the CDM.

The CDM allows emission-reduction (or emission removal) projects in developing countries to earn certified emission reduction (CER) credits, each equivalent to one tonne of CO2. These CERs can be traded and sold, and used by industrialized countries to a meet a part of their emission reduction targets under the Kyoto Protocol.

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The mechanism stimulates sustainable development and emission reductions, while giving industrialized countries some flexibility in how they meet their emission reduction limitation targets.

The projects must qualify through a rigorous and public registration and issuance process designed to ensure real, measurable and verifiable emission reductions that are additional to what would have occurred without the project.