Western Wind Energy raises $2,800,000

Western Wind Energy Corp. is pleased to announce that it has negotiated a non-brokered private placement of 2,000,000 units at a price of $1.40 per unit. Western Wind Energy is the largest producing pure wind energy, publicly traded company (non-income trust) in North America. Western Wind Energy currently produces 34.5 MW of energy from over 500 wind turbine generators located in Southern California. Western Wind also has over 155 MW of expansion power sales agreements with the associated projects in the late stage of development. In addition, Western Wind Energy has a credible pipeline of over 1,300 MW of site locations in the State of California.