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Engineering News reports that thousands of jobs await a Ministerial determination to give the green light for the next round of wind farms to be built.
The SA Wind Energy Association (Sawea) says SA’s energy transition is poised to unlock economic growth and deliver thousands of much-needed jobs at a time when the country faces staggering unemployment rates. “The positive impact of continued wind farm construction on the economy, over the next ten years, cannot be overstated. In the construction phase wind energy projects make a significant impact on jobs in different parts of the value chain,” Sawea CEO Ntombifuthi Ntuli noted. Twelve wind farms are under construction in SA, with each of them making use of high levels of local content. The next ten years will see 17 new wind farms being built each year. Sawea advised that tower manufacturing facilities were already set up in the country, with additional capacity and facilities awaiting the government’s next bid round of the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme. Ntuli explained that looking specifically at the manufacturing sector that was poised to create jobs, the yearly capacity of 1,600 MW translated to 640 individual towers and 1,920 wind turbine blades each year. The existing lower tower manufacturing facility in Atlantis, on the Cape’s West Coast, currently produces 150 towers a year and has created 340 direct jobs and 200 indirect jobs. Therefore, manufacturing 640 towers locally could potentially create 1,360 direct jobs and about 800 indirect jobs.
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