Heritage Cases

Red Cap Energy (Pty) Ltd (‘Red Cap’) is proposing to develop four Wind Farms and associated grid connections (together referred to as the Hoogland Project) in an area located between Loxton and Beaufort West in the Northern and Western Cape Provinces. Hoogland 1 and 2 are located to the north closer to Loxton and form the Northern Cluster of Wind Farms that will share a grid connection named the Hoogland Northern Grid Connection. Hoogland 3 and 4 are located closer to Beaufort West and comprise the Southern Cluster which will similarly share a separate grid connection, named the Southern Grid Connection The scope of this report is the Hoogland Southern Wind Farm Cluster (Hoogland 3 Wind Farm and Hoogland 4 Wind Farm), which is subject to a Basic Assessment (BA) process. Even though these are two separate applications they will be considered in the same Pre-Application BA Report. The Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) has granted Red Cap permission to combine the two Wind Farms into one Environmental Authorisation Application processes under Regulation 11 (1) of GN R. 982. It is proposed that each wind farm will comprise of up to 60 turbines with a targeted nameplate generation capacity of a maximum of 420MW. The entire footprint for the Hoogland 4 Wind Farm falls within the Western Cape Province, however, a portion of the Hoogland 3 Wind Farm falls within the Northern Cape Province, which is under the jurisdiction of SAHRA.