Red Cap - Leghoya Wind Farm Development

Leghoya Holdings Pty Ltd (Leghoya), an affiliate company of Red Cap Energy (Pty) Ltd (Red Cap) is proposing to develop three Wind Farms and associated infrastructure approximately 6 km North-East of Ermelo, in the Mpumalanga Province. The project is located within the Msukaligwa Local and Gert Sibande District Municipalities. The wind farms will be called the Leghoya 1 Wind Farm, Leghoya 2 Wind Farm and Leghoya 3 Wind Farm. The project includes a network of high voltage transmission lines and substations, to connect the wind farms to the Eskom grid. Collectively the project will be referred to as the ‘Leghoya Wind Farm Development’.

Leghoya has appointed SLR Consulting (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd as the Independent Environmental Assessment Practitioner (EAP) to undertake the required Scoping and EIA (SEIA) processes for the proposed Leghoya Wind Farms and Grid Connection Projects in terms of the EIA Regulation 2014 (as amended) promulgated under (NEMA).

As per the National Environment Management Act (NEMA, Act No. 107 of 1998, as amended) and the 2014 Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Regulations (2014 as amended), a Scoping and Environmental Impact Assessment (S&EIA) process will be followed for each wind farm and the grid connection. The formal applications will be submitted to the Competent Authority (CA), Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE), and will be subject to a joint public participation process (PPP).

Status

Notice is hereby given that the Draft Scoping Reports for the above-mentioned projects have been made available for a 30-day public review and comment period from 11 July 2025- 12 August 2025.

Should you and/or your organisation wish to comment on any aspect of the projects, comments should be forwarded to SLR at the email address and telephone number shown above.

A full copy of each Scoping Report and appendices are available for download below.

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