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InnoSun Energy Holdings, a subsidiary of the French company InnoVent is launching construction work on a 9.8 MW wind farm at Trekkopje, in Namibia’s Erongo region. This is to supply clean electricity to the Erongo water desalination plant owned by Orano, the French uranium giant.
InnoSun Energy Holdings, a subsidiary of the French company InnoVent is launching construction work on a 9.8 MW wind farm at Trekkopje, in Namibia’s Erongo region. This is to supply clean electricity to the Erongo water desalination plant owned by Orano, the French uranium giant. InnoSun also signed a 10-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Orano for a 5 MW solar power plant a year ago, also to supply its desalination plant at Wlotzkasbaken in the Erongo region of western Namibia.
The desalination plant was built to supply fresh water to the Trekkopje uranium mine via 40 km of pipes, water is a very scarce resource in the Namib desert. But the mine never went into operation. In the meantime, the treated water is sold to Namibia Water Corporation (NamWater), which distributes it to Swakopmund, neighbouring mines, and other areas in the Erongo region. The Erongo desalination plant cost 2.5 billion Namibian dollars (around 153 million US dollars) to build.
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The Trekkopje wind farm will add to the installed capacity of InnoSun, which already operates the 5 MW Ombepo wind farm. In total, its parent company InnoVent has an installed capacity of 25 MW in Namibia. The company also boasts a portfolio of 700 MW of projects under development in the southern African country.
