Vestas announced the opening of an office to cover the emerging and growing wind energy market in southern Africa. The office is to be a support hub for operations in this area of the world. At the same time, the company just commissioned a wind turbine into operation at Coega, South Africa, at the World Cup city of Port Elizabeth. The unit in question is the V90-1.8 MW wind turbines, which will generate some of the power to be used for supplying part of the power needs for the World Cup, in particular for supplying electricity to the Nelson Mandela Bay football stadium. The Coega turbine is a project developed by the Belgian energy developer Electrawinds.

Although Vestas has been active in the southern Africa region for years now, the new office headqueartered in Johannesburg represents the company's strong commitment to the region's wind energy future.

[source: Vestas]