Last year the country uncorked Africa’s first wind feed-in tariff, offering developers ZAR1.25 ($0.16) per kilowatt hour – higher than the rate offered in competitive wind markets such as Germany and Ontario, Canada. South Africa currently has less than 10 megawatts (MW) of operational wind capacity.
“We believe the wind potential is extremely large in this country,” says Thomas Riboud, director of the newly launched South African arm of UK-based renewables developer RES.
“The
