Kenya:

Will Geothermal Energy Bring Power to the People? (thinkafricapress.com)

Kenya is investing lots of hope and money in the Bogoria-Silali geothermal energy complex which it hopes will boost industry and encourage clean energy consumption.

Kerio Valley looking towards Kabarnet 

(Courtesy robdet)

Stephen Samoei Magut looks calmly at the columns of steam escaping the cracked earth in Kenya's vast Kerio Valley. The picturesque landscape has been his home for the past seven decades.

“Growing up, we were told that the steam represented our departed forefathers who came down to earth to sleep during the night, and went back to heaven at daybreak,” he explains to Think Africa Press. “Now, we are told the smoke represents progress.”

In 2011, the Kenyan government announced that the vast valley and surrounding escarpment areas would be the site of a multi-million dollar power supply upgrade that could become the largest geothermal project on the continent.

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