EDF Energies Nouvelles’ South African unit, InnoWind, saw its Chaba wind farm in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province commissioned on September 14. The Chaba wind farm will add 21.5 MW of power generation to South Africa’s power grid.
The renewable energy arm of French utility EDF SA said on Monday it had commissioned the 21.5-MW Chaba wind farm in. InnoWind won the project, together with two others, in South Africa’s REIPPPP in 2012.
The Chaba wind park consists of seven V112 Vestas turbines, each of which has a capacity of 3.075 MW. The plant is 40%-owned by local partners and has a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) in place.
Including Chaba, the company has commissioned two wind farms in South Africa to date, adding 83 MW to the South African grid. The company is working on two other projects that it won through the same program in 2012 and 2015.