South Africa’s Darling Wind Farm
December 2, 2008 by David Sasaki
Yesterday morning we visited the Darling Wind Farm. In addition to the three windmills in the photo, there is a fourth behind me. Those four generate enough electricity to fulfill 80% of Darling’s current energy needs.
Of course, not every community is windy enough to justify wind-powered renewable energy, but there are plenty of windy places like Darling that could meet most of their energy needs by installing just a few turbines.
It embarrasses me that we grandly call this a wind farm. Comparing it’s scale to some overseas it’s more like a wind smallholding. But it’s a start towards the solution of South Africa’s energy crisis.