HUGE WIND AND HYDRO POWER PROJECT UNDERWAY IN LESOTHO

BY BILL CORCORAN SOUTH African and Chinese investors have joined forces with the government of the tiny mountain kingdom of Lesotho to develop Africa's largest renewable energy project at an estimated cost of around US dollars USD15 billion over the next 15 years. This October (2011), South African industrial group Harrison & White Investments unveiled plans to co-develop with the Lesotho government a massive wind and hydro power project in Lesotho, which is completely surrounded by South Africa. The move has interested parties in both countries, and ...


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