Wind energy in the north of Madagascar

The local organisation “Mad’Eole” is planning on building a wind farm with a capacity of 1.2 MW which would be linked with the electricity network. The aim of this project to is minimise the deforestation, stabilise the power supply, offer jobs to local employees and improve the water and air quality.

Instead of diesel sourced power...	...clean wind sourced power

The power supply in the city and area of Antisarana, on the northern part of Madagascar, is instable. The high oil and electricity price have greatly increased the demand for firewood and charcoal. This is a threat to local forests. Today electricity is produced (see picture) by burning diesel or fuel oil. As well as producing CO2 it also causes major air pollution in the immediate locality.

The project which establishes the first wind farm in Madagascar has set the goal of bypassing the shortness of energy supply on one hand, on the other hand the building of a wind farm in Ramena (25 kilometres out of Antisarana) aims to producing climate neutral and sustainable power. The wind farm will contain six turbines with a capacity each of 200 kilowatt.

The wind farm is the first step in an extensive programme, which aims at supplying the complete market in the Indian Ocean with wind turbines of the highest quality and mainly producing the turbines locally. Therefore the project of Ramena is the kick-off for a technology-transfer.

Each turbine will reduce the CO2 emission by approx. 350 tons CO2 per year, which will lead to a total decrease of 31’500 tons CO2 within the first fifteen years.

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