Kenya Power Profile: Renewables & Conventional

[Mekatilili]

This thread is dedicated to Kenya's efforts to generate power from renewable sources. Kenya is already a continental giant in this space and efforts are underway to move further away from traditional sources of power.

• Kenya is already Africa's largest producer of Geothermal power.
• Kenya is home to Africa's largest wind farm which upon completion will be the most efficient wind farm in the world.

300MW Lake Turkana Wind Power: The largest wind farm in Africa

• 365 Turbines
• 300 MW
• Located in Turkana
• The project will consist of 365 turbines and expected to achieve 68% load capacity factor, which will make it the most efficient wind power farm in the world. Source:
  
• $674 million

Turkana wind power eyes June production
By Reuters | Updated Thu, January 19th 2017 at 00:00 GMT +3

Africa’s biggest wind power scheme, the Lake Turkana Wind Power project in Kenya, should be fully connected to the national electricity grid and producing power by the end of June.
This was revealed yesterday by a director at the consortium building the project.

 

[Jay456watt]

seems june-august will be a good time to launch projects...

 

[Mekatilili]

An initiative led by the private sector!

 

[Mekatilili]

World Bank praises Kenya’s strong policies on electricity

The World Bank has cited Kenya among African countries with strong policies to address the challenge of lack of power connection in homes.

The bank's survey established that 40 per cent of African countries do not have solid plans to connect the estimated 600 million people living without electricity. This makes Africa the least electrified continent in the world.

Other African counties with stronger electrification policies include Uganda, Tanzania and South Africa.

Kenya, which says about 60 per cent of her citizens are connected to power, plans to connect all her households by 2020.

"The good news now is there is a generation of African leaders in some countries who have understood that ... their economies will not grow unless they have got reliable, affordable modern power," said Rachel Kyte, head of Sustainable Energy for All, and special representative of the United Nations secretary general.

The World Bank's study – Regulatory Indicators for Sustainable Energy – was carried out as part of efforts by SEforALL, a global energy partnership, to ensure universal access to modern energy, improve energy efficiency and promote renewable power.

The bank yesterday said a range of developing countries have emerged as leaders in a global race to switch to sustainable energy by 2030, by boosting their policies to help improve people's access to reliable, affordable and clean power.