{"id":257895,"date":"2018-07-11T14:46:47","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T12:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=257895"},"modified":"2018-07-11T14:46:47","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T12:46:47","slug":"new-turbines-coming-to-south-african-wind-farms-as-part-of-green-energy-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/257895\/new-turbines-coming-to-south-african-wind-farms-as-part-of-green-energy-push\/","title":{"rendered":"New turbines coming to South African wind farms as part of green energy push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Siemens Gamesa South Africa has confirmed that it has won an order to supply wind turbines to two South African farms &#8211; benefiting from the nation\u2019s plan to speed up its shift to clean power.<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish-German company will deliver 109 turbines with a combined capacity of 250 megawatts to Irish developer Mainstream Renewable Power Ltd, the company said on Wednesday (11 July).<\/p>\n<p>Siemens Gamesa will start delivery next year of its SWT-2.3-108 turbines to Mainstream\u2019s 140-megawatt plant near Springbok, in the Northern Cape, and to a 110-megawatt plant in the Ceres region in the Western Cape.<\/p>\n<p>The projects won capacity in a government power auction, Siemens Gamesa said.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after being sworn in earlier this year, President Cyril Ramaphosa approved a raft of stalled renewable energy contracts.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/256283\/cash-strapped-eskom-could-lay-off-about-15000-workers-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark noopener\">Cash-strapped Eskom could lay off about 15,000 workers <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Siemens Gamesa has confirmed that it has won an order to supply wind turbines to two South African farms &#8211; benefiting from the nation\u2019s plan to speed up its shift to clean power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":93779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9874],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-257895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257895"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257899,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257895\/revisions\/257899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}