Construction World February 2015

ABOVE FROM LEFT: Construction work on the DCD Wind Towers project first began in March 2013; DCD Wind Towers factory is expected to manufacture between 120 and 150 towers per year. LEFT: DCD Wind Towers general manager, Gerrit Viviers.

logical base of the country and its growth, and the REIPPPP will add capacity to the national electricity grid. This will also have a positive impact on poverty-stricken rural areas, where community members are being trained and skilled for jobs in previously unknown technologies," he states.

energy parts and sector logistics are co-ordi- nated and managed for the entire province. Construction work on the DCD Wind Towers project first began in March 2013, with an official sod turning ceremony hosted by the company in May 2013.

Due to increased renewable energy invest- ments as a result of projects such as the DCD Wind Towers manufacturing facility, the Eastern Cape is set to become a leading wind energy hub. The Coega IDZ, including the deepwater Port of Ngqura, is also set to become the core through which renewable

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