The South Africa Dept. of Mineral Resources and Energy has signed a project development agreement with French renewable energy developer and operator EDF Renewables for three onshore wind power generation projects with a combined capacity of 420 MW.
The deal, signed Sept. 22 between state-owned power utility Eskom SA and EDF, comes after a nearly four-month-long delay of the original planned groundbreaking. The three projects, located in San Kraal and Phezukomoya in the country's Northern Cape province and Coleskop in the Eastern Cape province, will also include construction of 132-kV transmission lines to tie them into the existing power grid.