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Power and electricity generation from wind is a relatively new technology in South Africa. It is hard to believe when you only focus on the fact that South Africa has abundant wind, especially along the coast. Up until recently though, before Eskom started having power problems and shortages, SA had no serious need to pursue such a capital intensive power project such as wind-power generation.
Times have changed.
Koeberg is not sufficient anymore and South Africa is in serious need of alternative power generation sources.
One of the many different sustainable power generation solutions is wind-power. It is estimated that there are some 5 000 MW of wind power under development in South Africa, while the government had mandated the procurement of 400 MW of wind power by 2013. The wind energy projects under development would, therefore, need to compete for the offtake of their power. These decisions would likely be based on affordability, especially regarding grid connections, as well as the broad-based black economic-empowerment shareholding of a project.
Even though we could previously avoid such new capital intensive power projects, unfortunately it is not the case anymore. The Tsitsikamma Community Wind Farm (TCWF) project and any other project of the sort is estimated to cost at least R1-billion.
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