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Construction work on a multi-billion rand wind farm in the Blue Crane Route municipal area will begin as soon as the necessary purchase agreement has been signed by energy supply giant Eskom.
Blue Crane Development Agency (BCDA) CEO, Chris Wilken, says the project, facilitated by die agency, will create about 500 temporary jobs during construction.
This is just one of several exciting projects the BCDA is working on in conjunction with local government, the Industrial Development Corporation and other organizations.
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Despite the many challenges faced for the introduction of renewable energy into South Africa – and specifically the Eastern Cape – it is considered the energy of the future, the intial meeting of the regional renewable energy coordinating forum
The key objectives of the regional renewable rnergy coordinating forum included the consolidation the Eastern Cape as South Africa’s leading producer of renewable energy, to establish Nelson Mandela Bay and East London as the country’s primary centers for manufacturing renewable energy machinery and to establish the region as the major center for research and development training.
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There is huge potential for the creation of jobs for supplying renewable energy to the Eastern Cape and it is projected that more than 110 000 jobs may be created if this kind of energy forms part of the province’s energy mix by 2038.
Wendy Fisher of the Cacadu Local Economic Development Initiative (LEDI), says the exploration of the considerable potential for renewable energy as a new area of growth related to agriculture, including biomass, biogas, hydro-electric, solar and wind energy, is a focus area within the agri-innovation component of the Cacadu District’s LEDI.
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We are REDI, are you? REDI? It is the Rural Economic Development Initiative, that is a partnership between the Cacadu District Municipality, the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) and other major stakeholders in the region aimed at identifying and unlocking economic potential.
The idea, says programme coordinator Wendy Fisher, is to build a strong strategic relationship between municipality, local and regional stakeholders aimed at catalysing an economic turnaround.
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Who would have thought it possible to farm fish in the arid Karoo?
The Camdeboo Satellite Aquaculture Project (CSAP) proposes a commercially viable fish production venture through the establishment of aquaculture clusters, each consisting of a central management farm and a network of satellite farming systems, which will benefit from economies of scale through their collaborations. The freshwater fish produced will be packaged to increase shelf life and sold at an affordable price in order to fulfil the growing gap caused by the reduction in the annual pilchard quota.
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