The wind turbines project from Electrawinds (Belgian wind-farm provider) with carbon consultancy support of CO2logic (European carbon consultancy) will provide energy to the football world cup via South Africa’s first ever wind-farm. During the course of the tournament, Electrawinds offers one month of energy produced by the fledgling energy plant to the Nelson Mandela Bay Football Stadium.
The wind farm based in Port Elizabeth, which will eventually contain 25 VESTAS V90 turbines with a total power of 45 MW, has been under construction since May. The first of the 95 meter high turbines, with a total power of 1.8 MW, has been completed and is ready to provide 5,700,000 kWh annually for at least 1629 South African families (based on average consumption of 3500 kWh/family in EU). The total carbon reductions created by this single turbine will offset the emissions required to fly more than 68,700 fans from London to the World cup final in Johannesburg.
Tanguy du Monceau (CO2Logic): “We are proud to be able to support an initiative as empowering as the FIFA World cup, but ironically, the legacy of the Coega IDZ wind farm will perhaps be even greater. This is the first time clean wind technology has been brought to South Africa by the private sector.”
Luc Desender Managing Director Electrawinds: “There is great support in South Africa for renewable energy and this offers good prospects. Furthermore, it is my personal dream to reserve the first green electricity of Electrawinds in South Africa for the 2010 football world championship.”
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