ENERGY
SA's first wind farm approved
Posted Thu, 14 Jul 2005
Environment Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk has turned down the
only appeal against a commercial wind farm, paving the way for South
Africa's first-ever renewable energy power-generating facility.
On completion, the wind farm at Darling in the Western Cape will
feed the electricity it produces into the national grid.
The proposed development would involve the building of four
Danish-supplied wind turbines, with a total power output of about
5.2 megawatts, the Department of Environmental Affairs said in a
statement on Wednesday.
The wind farm is to be built by a private company, it said.
An experimental wind farm, with three giant turbines, is
currently in operation at a site north of Durbanville in the
Western Cape.
Sapa
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