Our approach and services

Genesis is actively developing a number of wind energy projects primarily in the coastal provinces of South Africa. We work with land owners to identify projects based on information from the wind resource mapping that is available, and then structure a project in such a way that the landowner and ourselves benefit in a equitable and fair manner.

Our services include bulk renewable energy project design, development, management and implementation, operation and maintenance.

We believe strongly in ensuring that all parties share in the benefits of the project and that we help to strengthen and build the communities within which we work. This means skills development, enterprise development, working with local entrepreneurs to find ways of adding value to their activities, sharing our knowledge and contributing to various social support structures and organisations in the local communities.

If you have an idea for a project, or specifically think your land may be suitable for developing a wind farm, then we'd like to hear from you. Email us or call us on +27 (0)83 460 3898 and we'd be happy to come and have an exploratory discussion with you and to help shape out the project.

Our wind farm projects

Jeffrey's Bay Genesis is working with the owner of a local dairy farm to develop a 15MW wind farm that will put clean energy into the local grid. The project also comprises a pumped storage component and further 20MW expansion of the wind farm. This will bring total installed capacity of the wind farm to 32MW. The EIA has been completed and a Record of Decision is expected mid-March 2009 and construction is scheduled for January 2010.

Cape West Coast The project comprises a 150MW wind farm to be erected on land owned by a consortium of farmers based on the West Coast. Most of the farmers in the consortium have recently aquired their land and are looking to the wind energy project to further enhance the value of their land.

Walker Bay Working with the Nuwejaars River Nature Reserve team comprising farmers from the greater Bredasdorp area, Genesis is developing a 65MW wind farm. The greater Bredasdorp area comprises 16 farms that have joined to form a collective management agency aimed at protecting the areas natural resources, enhancing agricultural opportunities, looking for additional income earning ventures (such as the wind farm, game lodges, wine routes) that will augment the current agricultural and wild flower industries and benefit the greater community of land owners in this area.

CSP and Ocean power Genesis is partnering with Coast-to-Coast Energy to complete the feasibility study for the first phase of a wave power project off the West Cape coast. The first project will generate 20MW of energy from machines supplied by Pelamis (www.pelamiswave.com) that will be fed into the national grid. Our objective is to expand the suite of projects up to 120MW over the next 3-4 years