Thursday, August 13, 2026 Search My Trip EnglishChinese
World news · travel · culture
Taiwan The Taiwan Times
Taiwan's window to the world

Golden Valley Wind Energy Facility

South Africa

The 2474th largest power station in the world

117.7 MW · Capacity

The Golden Valley Wind Energy Facility (or "Golden Valley Wind Farm") is a wind farm in the Amathole District Municipality, built within the wind energy generation zone located in the centre of Bedford, Cookhouse and Somerset East, in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. The Golden Valley Wind Energy Facility forms part of a cluster of wind generating plants within the wind energy generation zone, and is neighbored by the Nxuba Wind Power Station, Cookhouse Wind Farm and Amathole Wind Farm. The wind farm is owned by BioTherm Energy (wholly owned by Actis), Letsatsi Trust and the Golden Valley Wind Facility Community Trust - jointly Amstilite (Pty) Ltd - who appointed Goldwind as the EPC contractor for the project. In turn, the EPC contractor appointed Concor to build the civil balance of plant, OptiPower, a division of Murray & Roberts for the electrical balance of plant, and Vanguard for specialized lifting.

Power station data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

More power stations in South Africa

  1. Medupi Power Station4.76 GW
  2. Kendal Power Station4.12 GW
  3. Majuba Power Station4.11 GW
  4. Matimba Power Station3.99 GW
  5. Lethabo Power Station3.71 GW

Other large power stations worldwide

  1. Bui Dam · Ghana1,440 GW
  2. Western Green Energy Hub · Australia50 GW
  3. Gujarat Hybrid Renewable Energy Park · India30 GW
  4. Three Gorges Dam · China22.5 GW
  5. Baihetan Dam · China16 GW
  6. Itaipu Dam · Paraguay14 GW
  7. Xiluodu Dam · China13.86 GW
  8. Belo Monte Dam · Brazil11 GW