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.
Updated: June 01, 2016, 12:00 AM
Masdar’s Tafila wind farm lights up more than 80,000 Jordan homes – in pictures
Turbines at the wind farm. When completed, the wind farm will increase the country’s total power capacity by 3 per cent.
An aerial view of the Tafila wind farm.
Jordanian flags are seen hoisted at the wind farm.
The inside of a wind turbine.
The turbines tower above the landscape in Jordan.
The Tafila wind farm will account for almost 6.5 per cent of Jordan’s 1,800MW renewable energy target for 2020.
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.
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)
An engineer works at the top of a turbine.