The Global Wind Energy Council’s Africa WindPower launched a report dubbed Status of Wind in Africa report, which provides a stocktake of the wind industry in Africa and delivers a forecast of the continent’s wind energy pipeline.
The Status Report provides the foundation for policy discussions and project development to build on and drive the region’s wind development forward through the rest of this decade.
The report identifies 83 installed wind farms across Africa, providing 9 GW of clean power.
An analysis of the continent’s project pipeline finds that capacity could increase by more than 900 per cent, with 140 projects planned across Africa, representing another 86 GW of installed capacity on the horizon.
The Status of Wind in Africa report set out, ahead of the global stocktake at COP28, that Africa is already on the move when it comes to renewable energy development.
In Kenya, for example, 17 per cent of total generation comes from wind energy, while Senegal enjoys 15 per cent of its energy from wind.
The foundation is there for a rapid scale-up of wind energy capacity, as the current forecast capacity still only taps into 0.2 per cent of the continents’ total technical potential capacity, which stands at 33, 642 GW.