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As part of Nambed’s first phase of carbon-neutral projects, a 34-megawatts (MW) wind farm is about to be constructed at Kerbehuk. This will reduce the miner’s carbon emissions by 79,000 tonnes annually, which will also see the development of a larger solar facility solution to supplement the wind farm. Nambed is to submit its Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) application to the Ministry of Environment, Forestry, and Tourism next month.
As part of Nambed’s first phase of carbon-neutral projects, a 34-megawatts (MW) wind farm is about to be constructed at Kerbehuk. This will reduce the miner’s carbon emissions by 79,000 tonnes annually, which will also see the development of a larger solar facility solution to supplement the wind farm. Nambed is to submit its Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) application to the Ministry of Environment, Forestry, and Tourism next month.
This initiative will be operated and maintained by a special-purpose vehicle (SPV). The shareholders of the SPV are intended to be Envusa Energy and a Namibian partner that is still to be identified. Namdeb would be the sole off-taker of the wind energy produced. Wind energy would make a large contribution to carbon neutrality, and also provide electricity at a lower cost. Most of the carbon emission reduction will be through the replacement of fossil electricity and fossil fuels, and the wind energy facility is the first large-scale implementation project to propel Namibia toward carbon neutrality by 2030.
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Apart from the immediate benefits that a large construction project like this would bring to local service providers and contractors, it would also create employment during construction to more than 200 people at peak and then operational and maintenance work opportunities during the 20 years of operation of the facility. Some of the current SED planning is looking at renewable energy skills development in the region especially since there are several other renewable energy projects planned by other developers.
Namdeb Diamond Corporation (Pty) Limited, a 50/50 partnership between the Namibian Government and De Beers
