Green & Renewable Energy

There are notable opportunities to develop manufacturing centres and production facilities for renewable energy within the Eastern Cape Particularly in the areas of wind, solar energy and battery storage. To date, 15 large scale wind and solar farms have been constructed, with an additional 2 under construction – Total installed capacity of 1513 Megawatts, with facility size ranging from 23 Megawatts to 140 Megawatts. Over the coming 10 years, the National Integrated Resource Plan provides for 15762 Megawatts of Wind Farms, 6814 Megawatts of Solar and 2088 Megawatts of storage, worth hundreds of billions of rands in investment value. The EC Province is well suited to host a large portion of these facilities. The Eastern Cape is well suited to host additional wind and solar installations (accompanied by storage systems). Green Hydrogen is gaining significant momentum in national planning, with Coega Special Economic Zone (SEZ) earmarked as a gateway for Green Hydrogen Export. The SEZ has been earmarked as a Natural Gas Hub in the future natural gas system. With the recent “Brulpadda” and “Luiperd” Billion-Barrel Oil and Gas find's off the South Coast, the Eastern Cape coastline is now considered to have considerable natural gas prospects.