95MW Tsitsikamma Community Wind Energy Facility

A R1-billion wind energy project with major benefits for a poverty-stricken Mfengu community is to be developed in Tsitsikamma. The proposed 95MW Tsitsikamma Community Wind Farm will be established on 7000ha of the farm Wittekleibosch in the Eastern Cape. The Tsitsikamma community project is the first community on its way to developing a wind energy project. The Tsitsikamma wind farm project will implant 20 wind turbines, each 80 metres tall, over 7,000 hectares of Wittekleibosch farmland at a cost of 1 billion rand ($138 million). The windmills will each produce 2 megawatts of electricity, which is expected to light more than 400,000 homes, include those of the Mfengu community who own the land but don't yet have access to electric power.