{"id":248672,"date":"2026-10-30T22:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T20:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-n1-6bn-luderitz-wind-farm-to-boost-energy-supply\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T22:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T20:00:19","slug":"namibia-n1-6bn-luderitz-wind-farm-to-boost-energy-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-n1-6bn-luderitz-wind-farm-to-boost-energy-supply\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: N$1.6bn L\u00fcderitz Wind Farm to Boost Energy Supply"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\"><em>The N$1.6 billion Diaz wind farm, developed by InnoVent in the Tsau||Khaeb National Park near L\u00fcderitz, was inaugurated on Friday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">NamPower managing director Simson Haulofu at the event said keeping electricity supply costs affordable for consumers must go hand in hand with the expansion and diversification of electricity supply.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">He said the government recognises that energy sector activities must focus on local energy resources.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Harnessing domestic wind resources supports these efforts by&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610290103.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The N$1.6 billion Diaz wind farm, developed by InnoVent in the Tsau||Khaeb National Park near L\u00fcderitz, was inaugurated on Friday. NamPower managing director Simson Haulofu at the event said keeping electricity supply costs affordable for consumers must go hand in hand with the expansion and diversification of electricity supply. He said the government recognises that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":248673,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,6557,7424,10402,19657,55740,4706,724,257,254,5236,15683],"class_list":["post-248672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boost","tag-energy","tag-farm","tag-luderitz","tag-n1-6bn","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-supply","tag-wind"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}