German fascination with SA wind power

Germans seem to be very interested in wind power generation in South Africa. Don't know why. First we had German-born Dr Tobias Bischof-Niemz running the Energy Centre at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). In this position, he proposed a power generation model that was very dependent on wind power. Bischof-Niemz has now become a director of the firm Enertrag SA, which is a subsidiary of Enertrag AG, the German-based renewable-energy company founded in 1992.  Enertrag has a history of developing wind power projects and, with Bischof-Niemz gone, one hopes the CSIR can get back to scientific and industrial research instead of pushing the wind agenda.