Awesome. Did you have anything to do with the farm that was set up between Vredenburg and Britannia Bay on the West Coast a few years ago? I was living in Britannia Bay then.
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Awesome. Did you have anything to do with the farm that was set up between Vredenburg and Britannia Bay on the West Coast a few years ago? I was living in Britannia Bay then.
No, that one is not by our company! I also know that there is another planned wind development between that wind farm and Paternoster, but that's not us either!
Ah okay. The story going around was that the farmer gets a small fortune in rental every month for them being there. Is that how it normally works?
The landowner does get compensated, usually in proportion to the revenue the turbine generates.
The first few years of projects that won the Government REIPPPP tenders (I think the Aurora Wind Farm was Round 2) were quite appealing to the landowners. Nowadays, things have got a lot more competitive, but it is still usually worth the farmers' while if the turbines are placed on land that's used for grazing rather than crops - they usually don't even have to cut back on their livestock numbers at all.
Awesome. Feel free to come put one up in my garden $😅
Hahaha - you do know how big they are right?
Almost as big as my empty big pocket hahaha.
Here's 8c to share then! Eek... do you have a day job? Everything feels like it's getting so expensive these days... even bread is over R20!