African Wind Energy Projects

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Existing and forthcoming wind energy projects in Africa

Country	Name	Turbine	Output	Online
South Africa	Darling Independent Power Producer (DarlIPP)	4 x 1.3 MW Fuhrländer	5.2 MW	2007
South Africa	Darling Sustainable Energy and Employment Scheme (Darling SEES) - Wind Farm visitor, education and training centre	250 kW Fuhrländer	0.25 MW
South Africa	Klipheuwel demonstration wind farm	2 x Vestas, 1 Jeumont	3.2 MW	2002
Morocco	Al Koudia Al Baida Wind Park	84 x 600 kW Vestas	50.4 MW
Morocco	Abdelkhalik Torres		3.5 MW
Morocco	Tanger		140 MW
Morocco	Tarfayer		60 MW
Namibia	ErongoRED (Mile 7 close to Walvis Bay)	refurbished WindWorld 220 kW	220 kW
Egypt	Zarafarana	105 x 600 kW Nordex	63 MW
Egypt	Zarafana	Vestas	60 MW
Eritrea	Wind park Assab		3 * 250 kW	2004
Libya			20 MW
Tunisia			12 MW
Algeria	Thousands of small wind pumping machines
Tunisia		MADE (Spanish)	10 MW

Darling Independent Power Producer, South Africa

This project has been given National Demonstration Status by the Minister of Minerals and Energy of South Africa. Located on Moedmaag Hill, 12 km from the small West Coast Town of Darling, 75 km North of Cape Town, a visitors and education centre will be located in the vicinity, showcasing the benefits of renewable energy and sustainable development. The wind regime is such that capacity factors of 25% are anticipated, and the energy will be sold to the Cape Town authorities, who have set a target of 20% of their energy to come from renewable sources by 2020. more

Klipheuwel demonstration project, South Africa

The three turbines located at Klipheuwel near Stellenbosch in the Western Cape are owned by Eskom, constructed in 2002 as a test project for future wind energy developments in South Africa.

Al Koudia Al Baida Wind Park, Morocco

These turbines are 42m diameter, on lattice towers of heights 35m, 40m and 50m. They generate 226GWhrs per annum, 2% of Morocco’s electricity consumption. They achieve a very high capacity factor of 51%, and offset an output of 230 000 tons of carbon dioxide per annum.

Zarafarana, Egypt

Situated in the Sahara desert, this is the largest wind farm in Africa. Constructed in two phases, the first 105 turbines were sponsored by DanIDA and KfW, and used the new ‘Hot Climate’ Nordex N43 turbine design, which could cope with the high temperatures and exceptionally dry environment. The second phase was the installation of xxx Vestas turbines, adding a further 60 MW to the existing 63 MW.