{"id":6909,"date":"2018-03-19T12:07:22","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T12:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/?p=6909"},"modified":"2018-03-19T12:11:31","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T12:11:31","slug":"west-jec-assures-gdc-105mw-steam-menengai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/west-jec-assures-gdc-105mw-steam-menengai\/","title":{"rendered":"West Jec Assures GDC of 105MW of Steam in Menengai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Consultants from West Jec (West Japan Engineering Consultants) have confirmed that GDC has enough steam for the set up of 105MW power plants in Menengai. In a meeting held at the Ministry of Energy office at Nyayo house, the team reported their findings, further paving way for the set up of the\u00a0Menengai\u00a0power plants by independent power producers.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting was attended by the Energy Cabinet Secretary Hon. Charles Keter, PS Dr. Eng Joseph Njoroge, CAS and PS Renewable Energy Prof. Colleta Suda, GDC MD &amp; CEO Eng. Johnson P. Ole Nchoe as well as GDC Senior managers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consultants from West Jec (West Japan Engineering Consultants) have confirmed that GDC has enough steam for the set up of 105MW power plants in Menengai. In a meeting held at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/west-jec-assures-gdc-105mw-steam-menengai\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":6910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4747,4746,11],"tags":[5432,6433,5266,6834],"class_list":["post-6909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-geothermal","category-renewables-2","category-top-news","tag-independent-power-producers","tag-ipps","tag-menengai","tag-west-japan-engineering-consultants","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/GDC-JEC.jpg?fit=768%2C512&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5JWkQ-1Nr","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5327,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/ipps-at-menengai-geothermal-project-warned-not-to-cause-delays\/","url_meta":{"origin":6909,"position":0},"title":"IPP&#8217;s At Menengai Geothermal Project Warned Not To Cause Delays","author":"","date":"October 23, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"The Ministry of Energy & Petroleum has given the Menengai Geothermal Project a clean bill of health having confirmed the existence of sufficient steam to feed the proposed 105MW power plants to be constructed by independent power producers (IPPs). 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