Wind farm operators are under no illusion that their small power generation output will be inadequate to meet South Africa's baseload issues. However, they believe that in time new storage measures and lower costs will change the game radically.
Aurora Wind Power head of construction Christiaan Swanepoel told media on a site visit to Wind Farm 1 that wind farms would need to generate 132 GW to supply Eskom's current 44GW of baseload supply.
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