Background sawep phase 1 (2008 – 2010): Outcome

The public recognition and confirmation, through the work of WASA 1 (project of SAWEP 1) by the DoE Minister in her speech that was delivered by Acting DoE DG at Windaba 2014 that South Africa has an excellent wind resource and captured in the WASA 1 booklet http://www.wasaproject.info/docs/WASABooklet.pdf that was launched in Sept 2015.

WASA 1 masts still operating today and building up a long term, uninterrupted, wind data base for South Africa which is particular useful for studying the seasonal and prediction of climate change impact on SA’s wind resource which is of great importance for long term energy policy and growth of the wind industry in SA