Wind Farms

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.