The African office will be part of Wind Prospect’s Developer Services division and will open in Cape Town by October 2010. Its target is to serve the whole African continent providing wind resource assessment, due diligence and development support services to developers, banks and financial institutions.

Wind Prospect is currently working on 11 contracts across Kenya and South Africa, representing 1.3 GW of potential energy. At the moment, the continent has 770 MW of wind capacity installed, according to the World Wind Energy Report 2009.