Masdar’s Tafila wind farm lights up more than 80,000 Jordan homes – in pictures

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  Turbines at the wind farm. When completed, the wind farm will increase the country’s total power capacity by 3 per cent.

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  An aerial view of the Tafila wind farm.

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  Jordanian flags are seen hoisted at the wind farm.

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  The inside of a wind turbine.

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  The turbines tower above the landscape in Jordan.

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  The Tafila wind farm will account for almost 6.5 per cent of Jordan’s 1,800MW renewable energy target for 2020.

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  The Tafila wind farm was developed by Jordan Wind Project Company, a co-development partnership between InfraMed (50 per cent), Masdar (31 per cent) and EP Global Energy.

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  An engineer takes the lift inside a turbine to get to top at the Tafila wind farm in southern Jordan in a renewable energy project where Masdar operates the 117 WM Tafila Wind farm in Jordan. (Salah Malkawi for The National)

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  An engineer works at the top of a turbine.

Masdar’s Tafila wind farm, totaling 117 megawatt, is powering more than 80,000 homes and is the first utility-scale renewable energy project in Jordan. The US$287 million project became operational in September 2015.