In recent years, has become increasingly prominent as the energy crisis, and people’s awareness of environmental protection, developing countries around the world wind of such enthusiasm for the growing clean energy to heat up, a late start in this respect the African countries also have big catch up with the trend.

Prior to this, Egypt has plans to make wind power generation accounts for the end of 2010 its total energy supply of about 3%. The recent Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia and South Africa announced that it will develop 120 megawatts to 300 megawatts of wind power projects. At the same time, Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco are also developing wind power market increased interest.

Investment Advisor in the energy industry’s chief researcher Jiang Qian pointed out that although Africa has the world’s largest wind energy resources, the world’s total wind generator capacity of 20%, but due to funding, infrastructure and policy restrictions on such factors as missing, the region’s wind power development process has been slow. Investment Advisor in the latest release of “2010-2015 China’s wind power equipment industry, the prospects for investment analysis and forecast report” shows that close by the end of 2008, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia’s wind power installed capacity in all African countries among the top three, but were only 365MW, 134MW and 54MW.

Jiang Qian believed that the increasingly tight power supply situation in many countries in Africa, eyeing the primary cause of wind power. International Monetary Fund, previous data show that sub-Saharan Africa, 48 countries total electricity generation capacity of 63 billion watts, and quite a generating capacity in Spain; remove South Africa, the rest of the region’s wind power generation capacity of only 28 billion watts, equivalent to Argentina of generating capacity. At present, the electricity supply situation in Africa, not only cause inconvenience to the daily lives of the people, more seriously, it has even affected the pace of economic development in the region.

In addition, as the global wind turbines industry’s overall progress, power generation costs continue to decline, which is attracting more and more African countries to participate in the development of wind generators an important reason. This is one of a great performance, is the Government’s support policies for wind power increasing. South African National Energy Regulatory Commission (NERSA) 2009 Nian 5 rate had announced that the Committee has adopted national compulsory internet wind power tariff guidelines. Mandatory wind power electricity price will be around in 20 years time, the maintenance of the South African rand 1.25 per kilowatt-hour prices. This makes the implementation of South Africa’s first wind power into a mandatory access to the Internet in Africa.