South Africa takes a broad step toward renewable power supply:
South Africa’s first renewable energy power initiative feeding into the national grid was officially powered up on Friday. The R75-million Darling Wind Farm consists of four turbines of 1.3 MW capacity generating a total of 5.2 MW of beautiful clean energy!
The idea for Darling Wind Power was conceived way back in 2000 and has been in the pipeline for a number of years now, so it’s great to see this project come to fruition. Construction of the turbines started in 2006 and took two years to complete…The project was developed by a consortium of private investors, including the Darling Independent Power Producer, state-owned Central Energy Fund, the Development Bank of South Africa, and the Government of Denmark which injected 15-million Danish krone (one third of the project funding) into the project.