Billionaire investors meet President, seek to pump cash into energy

Kenya is a model investment destination and a model for the rest of Africa, Sir Richard Branson, founder and CEO of the Virgin Group, declared earlier today. The comments came … Read More

Embrace green energy for development, President Kenyatta urges African countries

President Uhuru Kenyatta has urged African countries to embrace low cost green energy for the continent to realize its development goals. Sharing Kenya’s experience and his agenda to light up … Read More

GDC trains 113 staff with the JICA $20.5M capacity building grant Baringo-Silali Project

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has trained 113 young engineers, scientists and planners in the first phase of the $20.5M  geothermal capacity building grant extended to GDC in 2013. … Read More

Baringo Land deal paves way for commencement of the KfW 80 Million Euro Baringo-Silali Project

GDC has signed a land agreement pact with affected communities in the Baringo area thus paving way for the commencement of Phase one of the Baringo-Silali project. A meeting this … Read More

KenGen secures Ksh6.9b from France for Meru Wind Park

Kenya’s renewable energy development has received a major boost after the Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the French Development Agency (AFD) underpinning funding … Read More

First Turbine Shipment for Lake Turkana Wind Power project arrives in Mombasa Port

The first shipment of Vestas turbines for the 310 megawatt (MW) Lake Turkana Wind Power project has arrived in the Port of Mombasa. The turbines are the first of 365 … Read More

Ormat Announces Commercial Operation of Plant 4 in Olkaria III in Kenya, Expanding Complex Capacity to Nearly 140 MW

Ormat Technologies has announced that it reached commercial operation of Plant 4 in the Olkaria III complex in Kenya, increasing the complex total generating capacity by 29 MW to 139 … Read More

KenGen commissions the entire 280MW geothermal project

The Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) on Thursday last week inaugurated the 140MW Olkaria 1 power plant, the last phase of the 280 MW of Olkaria geothermal power the world’s largest such … Read More