Coega Wind Farm

Wind farm in South Africa

Onshore

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The Coega Wind Farm is a wind farm in Coega, an Industrial Development Zone (IDZ) covering 110 km² (42 sq mi) of land,^[1] that is situated within the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Municipality near Port Elizabeth, in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. Installed by the Belgian company Electrawinds [nl], it was the first commercial wind farm built in the country.^[2]^[3]

References

^ Coega Development Corporation :About Coega Archived February 3, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
^ "Electrawinds launches 1st wind turbine at Coega". MSN. Archived from the original on 8 July 2011. Retrieved 13 May 2010.
^ "Development of a 57.5MW Wind Energy Project". Public Process Consultants. Archived from the original on 25 August 2011. Retrieved 9 October 2010.

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