Thursday, December 3, 2009

HELIX WIND AND ITS DISTRIBUTOR EDAL RE TO PROVIDE 90 TO 100 WIND TURBINES TO JUJUY PROVINCE, ARGENTINA

San Diego, CA – Dec. 3, 2009 – Helix Wind Corp. (OTCBB: HLXW), a global renewable energy company, announced today that in cooperation with its distributor EDAL Re, Inc., Buenos Aires, it will provide 90 to 100 wind turbines as part of an estimated $9.5 million rural electrification and off-grid generation project in Jujuy, Argentina, being financed by the World Bank.

Starting February 2010, EDAL RE will install 15kW power islands, designed by its engineers, combining photovoltaic arrays and Helix Wind S594 vertical axis wind turbines to replace 2.3MW of fossil thermal genera¬tion. The provision of the turbines to the project is subject to successful completion of standard testing.

The project is part of the World Bank’s Renewable Energy in the Rural Market Project (PERMER), an innovative program providing clean energy to rural communities in Argentina. Jujuy Province is located in Northwestern Argentina, abutting Chile and Bolivia.

Javier Wolcoff, director of EDAL RE, said, “Wind turbines are the perfect complement to the project’s solar arrays since the most predominant winds in the high desert occur once the sun goes down. Helix Wind offers a robust, reliable turbine that can withstand the brutal northwest Argentinean winds, is easy to install in remote locations and requires little to no maintenance.”

“EDAL Re was the very first company to sign a distribu¬torship agreement with Helix Wind, and as a result, holds the right to commercialize Helix Wind turbines in much of South America and Ne¬therlands Antilles,” said Ian Gardner, Helix Wind CEO. “We’re excited to be working with EDAL to develop renewable energy solutions for Jujuy Province.”

“Not only are we excited about the prospect of replacing diesel generators with clean, renewable energy,” said Lic. Fernando Frias, Minister of Planning, Development and Infrastructure of Jujuy, “but we are also proud to be bringing advanced technologies to remote places in our province. This will contribute to providing clean energy to our population (and the obvious development that comes with it) and broaden their minds to include a new world of possibilities.”

About Helix:

Helix Wind Corp., a global renewable energy company, is engaged in the design, manufacturing and sale of small wind vertical axis turbine designed to generate 300W, 1kW, 2.0kW, 4.0kW, and 50kW of clean, renewable electricity. Additional information can be found at
http://www.helixwind.com

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