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Wind Farms

Mining’s mess is just energy transition’s opportunity
The Green Guardian
/ 11 November 2024

Mining’s mess is just energy transition’s opportunity

Rehabilitating mines presents an opportunity for environmental restoration and economic empowerment in the energy transition

By Thabo Molelekwa
Cape Vultures are on ‘collision course’ with wind farms
The Green Guardian
/ 20 October 2023

Cape Vultures are on ‘collision course’ with wind farms

The birds are not agile flyers and are not able to change direction or twist and turn the way smaller ones can

By Sheree Bega
Wind energy playing crucial role in Africa’s energy supply
The Green Guardian
/ 18 October 2023

Wind energy playing crucial role in Africa’s energy supply

A new report by the Global Wind Energy Council’s Africa Wind Power initiative examines the status of wind energy in Africa

By Sheree Bega
Gone with the wind: Lesotho’s $15-billion energy pipedream
Business
/ 22 September 2022

Gone with the wind: Lesotho’s $15-billion energy pipedream

A wind farm hailed as Africa’s largest renewable energy project and the solution to Lesotho’s hefty electricity costs has ground to a halt

By Sechaba Mokhethi
Environment department says no to controversial Watson family wind farm
The Green Guardian
/ 26 March 2021

Environment department says no to controversial Watson family wind farm

Controversial Eastern Cape project poses high risks to threatened birds of prey

By Sheree Bega
Water crisis: Look to SA’s renewable energy programme for solutions
Article
/ 9 February 2018

Water crisis: Look to SA’s renewable energy programme for solutions

The private sector will offer solutions and money if there is policy certainty and effective guarantees

By Staff Reporter
Prime farmland lies fallow amid restitution delays
Article
/ 31 March 2016

Prime farmland lies fallow amid restitution delays

Former homeland residents won their restitution claims but delays in property transfers and compensation grants mean the land now lies derelict.

By Kwanele Sosibo
Renewable energy investors struggle in former homelands
Article
/ 25 June 2015

Renewable energy investors struggle in former homelands

Difficulties in obtaining leases on communal land in the Eastern Cape are discouraging investors in renewable energy.

By Kwanele Sosibo
China and Africa harvest the wind for power
Article
/ 9 April 2015

China and Africa harvest the wind for power

The world’s developing economies installed 60% of new wind energy capacity in 2014.

By Staff Reporter
Headwind hits renewable energy
Article
/ 25 September 2014

Headwind hits renewable energy

Green power is coming on stream, but it is not without quite a few teething problems.

By Lynley Donnelly
The Jeffrey’s Bay Wind Project
Article
/ 31 January 2014

The Jeffrey’s Bay Wind Project

The Development Bank of Southern Africa invests in the power of air and renewable energy.

By Advertising Supplement
Coal reliance: SA Picks clean-energy bidders
Article
/ 29 October 2013

Coal reliance: SA Picks clean-energy bidders

The government has chosen 17 preferred clean bids and is studying further candidates to cut its coal reliance.

By Paul Burkhardt
Eskom wind farm blows up a storm
Article
/ 7 June 2013

Eskom wind farm blows up a storm

Critics claim private providers could have put the cheap money lent to the Cape project to much better use.

By Staff Reporter
SA set to profit from wind power
Article
/ 30 May 2013

SA set to profit from wind power

Strong government backing for renewable energy has given a much-needed boost to wind farms.

By Sipho Kings
Siemens to supply wind turbines to Sere farm
Article
/ 17 May 2013

Siemens to supply wind turbines to Sere farm

Siemens’s SA unit has won the contract to supply 46 wind turbines to power utility Eskom’s 100 megawatt Sere wind farm, says the German company.

By Reuters
SA’s renewable energy sector a beacon in Africa
Article
/ 19 February 2013

SA’s renewable energy sector a beacon in Africa

Although renewable energy is being hampered across Africa by an uncertain regulatory regime, the sector has exploded in South Africa in recent years.

By Sipho Kings
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Article
/ 6 May 2011

Projects on the cards

Only two major wind farms are near completion, but many are in the pipeline, according to the Southern African Alternative Energy Association.

By Fiona Macleod
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Article
/ 7 April 2011

Take Five: Of Iranian scientists and Ghanaian email scammers

Iran rises as a science power, Ghana rises as a scamming power and renewables get mixed results.

By Faranaaz Parker
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Article
/ 28 July 2009

Offshore wind could be next wave for United States

The Cape Cod resort area could in the next few years claim a new title of home to the United States’ first offshore wind farm.

By Scott Malone

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