Africa’s biggest windfarm :120 MW

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Africa’s biggest windfarm :120 MW

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Etiopia’s Ashegoda windfarm  cost €210m and builds on plan to create ‘climate resilient’ economy by 2025. More than two-thirds of the population of sub-Saharan Africa is without electricity, and more than 85% of those living in rural areas lack access. 

rajendrashende‘s insight:

Trade off? Media reports in 2011, however, noted that about 700 farmers had lost some or all their land to make way for the turbines. They were given financial compensation but some complained the money was too little. Same story as Hydroelectric dams that displace people? 

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