With wind energy established in South Africa over the past decade and now contributing almost 3.4GW to the energy mix, the industry is looking to leapfrog into the energy-hungry Southern African Development Community while addressing carbon emission concerns at the same time.
Thus there are “enormous opportunities” – from providing access to electricity to generating economic growth and jobs – while addressing the climate crisis. Janek Winand, the managing director of Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, said that, although they were procuring wind towers from South Africa, they were more expensive than imports. He believed that competition was needed to bring prices down.He said 1 600MW of wind procurement a year until 2030 created “sufficient certainty to build an industry that can compete on the global market”.
But several experts warned that there were a number of challenges to the development of a southern African wind power sector. However, Ndhlukula said a regional transmission infrastructure financing facility had been set up to strengthen transmission infrastructure, and a diamond-shaped line to link Namibia, Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe, known as the Zizabona project, was in the offing.
....'wind energy established in SA over the past decade '.......Which part of SA is this? The RECENT ones are in Cape Town.......
....'wind established in SA over the past decade '.......Which part of SA is this? The RECENT ones are in Cape Town.......
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