Oct 19 2010
International Quality and Productivity Centre (IQPC), a company engaged in arranging topical seminars, practical conferences and training programs on trends of the industry and technical developments, had recently conducted a survey among the users of energy sector and found that nearly 64.28% of the 2,754 respondents suggested wind energy use to tide over the increasing power problem of Africa.
IQPC has designs to initiate further discussions on the topic in its proposed Wind Power Development and Implementation conference to be held from 12th to 15th December, at Cairo, Egypt this year.
The African region witnessed good economic growth in the recent years which is amply reflected in its growing demand for electric power. The demand for electricity has favored a number of renewable energy projects in the continent. The continent faced electric power shortage most of the time which led to power cuts for longer durations. During the earlier part of this year the Electricity Ministry of Egypt had resorted to power cuts for equitable distribution of available electric power. Egypt does not have oil reserves to compliment its power use thus making the country to lookout for more renewable energy sources.
Morocco, another country in Africa has declared its intentions to install 2,000 MW power production from wind energy sources by the year 2020. Recently it’s King, Mohammed VI opened a wind farm considered to be the largest in Africa with an investment of € 250 million near Tangiers. Similarly Kenya reopened its largest Lake Turkana Wind Power Project to generate 300 MW in Marsabit with adequate investment from the government. A recent Global Wind Energy Council report predicts that the wind turbine installed capacity all over the world will reach 200 GW by the end of the year 2010.
Source: http://www.iqpc.com