Kenya:

GDC Reports 29.6 MW Geothermal Well at Menengai (Business Daily Africa)

A steam well drilled by GDC at Menengai.(Courtesy Nation Media Group)

Nine months after KenGen drilled Africa’s largest steam well in Olkaria, the Geothermal Development Company (GDC) has bored a well to match it in capacity.

Kenya is now home to the continent’s two largest geothermal steam wells, both about four times bigger than the average well.

GDC has reported drilling a steam well with an estimated power output of 29.6 MW in Menengai. This is just a shade lower than the 30 MW KenGen hit in Olkaria in February this year to report the biggest well in Africa so far.

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