Today Kenya has opened Africa's largest wind power plant

Today Kenya has opened Africa's largest wind power plant

Tanzania mnatumia zaidi ya elfu moja kununua mkate? Kweli pesa yenu ni ya madafu.
 
Tony254 said:
Mitanzania nina swali. The biggest wind power plant in Africa is in which country?
Atakayenipa jibu sahihi nitampa elfu moja ya Tanzania.


Kenya opens Africa's largest wind power project
Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta says wind farm will help boost electricity supply and access at lower cost. NEWS / KENYA

Africa Kenya The project was designed to boost Kenya's electricity supply by 13 percent [Thomas Mukoya/Reuters]
Kenya has unveiled Africa 's largest wind power plant, a project aimed at reducing electricity costs and dependence on fossil fuels and moving the nation to meet an ambitious goal of 100 percent green energy next year.
The sprawling wind farm of 365 turbines on the shores of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya was designed to boost the nation's electricity supply by 13 percent, giving more Kenyans access at a lower cost, President Uhuru Kenyatta said at its launch on Friday.
Kenya has made great strides in renewable energy in recent years and is considered one of the few African nations making progress toward clean power.
About 70 percent of the nation's electricity comes from renewable sources such as hydropower and geothermal - more than three times the global average.
But one in four Kenyans - mostly in rural areas - does not have access to electricity. Those with power face high costs and frequent blackouts due to unreliable supply.
"Today, we again raised the bar for the continent as we unveil Africa's single largest wind farm," said Kenyatta.
"Kenya is without doubt on course to be a global leader in renewable energy."
Kenyatta, who has announced plans to move the country to 100 percent green energy by 2020, said power from the $775m wind farm would help the government reach its goals of ensuring housing, healthcare, jobs and food security to all citizens.
"Today marks an important milestone in the country's steady march towards achieving self-sufficiency in power production," said Mugo Kibati, chairman of the Lake Turkana Wind Power, a private consortium that runs the plant.
SOURCE: REUTERS NEWS AGENCY
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At the meantime

Jiwe is paranoid,firing a minister and hired the one he forgot he just fired sometimes ago!

The guy’s brain is on Mars!

We are in deep shit!
 
tuusan said:
Sawa sawa ..
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Usisahau Kenya is the only country in Africa that produces geothermal power. We are number 8 in the world in geothermal production. Hata saa hii tunasaidia Ethiopia kujaribu kutengeneza geothermal field zao. Hapana machezo
 
Tony254 said:
Usisahau Kenya is the only country in Africa that produces geothermal power. We are number 8 in the world in geothermal production. Hata saa hii tunasaidia Ethiopia kujaribu kutengeneza geothermal field zao. Hapana machezo
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We unafahamu tunajenga bwawa bonde la mto rufiji mradi wa $3B ?
uwezo kufua umeme 2100MW najua wajua ila nakujuza zaidi

Mradi wa miaka 3 Tz imeamua
 
Bwana254 said:
Mkuu saidia kwa kunielimisha kidogo hapa .Sasa tuko na cumulative capacity ya MW ngapi in total?
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The total installed generating capacity is at 2740 (MW ) and the peak demand as of June was 1802 (MW) . We have a surplus of close to 900 MW that's why government plans to export electricity to south Sudan in exchange for gases.
 
Bwana254 said:
Mkuu saidia kwa kunielimisha kidogo hapa .Sasa tuko na cumulative capacity ya MW ngapi in total?
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Total installed capacity will not change much because GOK is planning to cancel or not renew the licenses of thermal power producers who use diesel to generate power(They have been responsible for the high power cost). It will go up significantly once ethiopians finish their Grand Renaissance Dam (around 2020-2022), because they will supply Kenya with 500MW out of the 6.45Gigawatts(6450MW) that will be generated from that dam, through the new transmission line from Kenya to ethiopia, which by the way is the longest power transmission line in east and central africa.
 
Later in the year, we will also be commissioning the 165MW Olkaria V Geothermal plant....Another addition of renewable power to our grid!
 
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