Thursday, August 7, 2014

Kenya:

KenGen Embraces Geothermal Wellheads (Kenya Broadcasting Corporation)


Electricity generating firm, KenGen expects to install 14 mobile geothermal wellhead generators on Olkaria within a year to would help pump an extra 128 MW of geothermal power into the national grid.

KenGen Assistant Manager Peter Ouma says adoption of geothermal wellhead generators would help reduce the time it takes to generate electricity from geothermal steam wells.

Geothermal wellheads are smaller power producing units that generate between 5 and 10 MW of electricity.

Ouma says the wellheads are affordable and easy to install, and help in early tapping of electricity while waiting for the construction of big geothermal power plants.

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