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Wind Power - Cape Town's Renewable Energy
For years now, countries around the world have been exploring renewable sources of energy! The most prominent renewable energy sources are solar power, wind power and hydro power. Cape Town has ocean, sun and wind! It was only a matter of time before at least one of these renewable energy sources would be explored.
In May 2006, The City of Cape Town signed a 20-year agreement to buy electricity from the Darlington Wind Farm. This has certainly paved the way for an innovative partnership between local and foreign investors. The Darlington Wind Farm is South Africa's first commercial wind farm.
70 million rand was spent on the Darlington Wind Farm. Construction began in 2005 and ended in 2008. Four giant wind turbines were made and are generating 13.2 gigawatt-hours of electricity per year for the national power grid. Suppliers of the Darlington Wind Farm electricity pay 25 cents per kilowatt-hour of electricity. The City of Cape Town was the initial buyer of this electricity. The growing concern for global warming, caused by the burning of fossil fuels means that people are very keen to buy "clean" electricity.
The City of Cape Town aims to have renewable energy sourcing 10% of its electricity. This would mainly comprise of solar and wind power. The national government has set a target of an additional 10 000 gigawatt-hours a year in renewable energy for the national power grid by 2013.
We all know that renewable energy sources are the way forward. Cape Town showed great initiative with its wind power project and has taken a massive step in the right direction. Cape Town has also set itself realistic targets to achieve for renewable energy. Cape Town has set an example in initiative for other countries to follow.
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Comment by Ethan Gray on March 18, 2010 at 1:02pm
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Very interesting.... Thanks for this Martin. Keep up the good work. :)
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Comment by Max on March 18, 2010 at 5:50pm
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Wow. Its interesting how a few large turbines over a small area can provide one of the largest cities of South Africa with power. Very interesting. Please read my blog on wind turbines :)
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Comment by Reid Falconer on March 18, 2010 at 8:57pm
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Amazing I just thrive of information like this, Wind Power all the way!
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Comment by Shakwei Mbindyo on March 19, 2010 at 4:30pm
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+1KS. Great to see large scale projects such as this being implemented.
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