To reduce development costs, geothermal exploration firms in Kenya have adopted well head generation. Here a small generation plant of for instance 10 MW or less is installed on a well after its drilled.
To further cut generation costs, the firm now plans to lease power generation equipment for its wellhead plants from private firms with 10 years experience in geothermal power plant design, operation maintenance and transmission.
The firm is keen to get the services for power generation on 9 wells located in the Olkaria and Eburru geothermal fields totaling 48 MW.
A request for an expression of interest has already been published by the firm which currently has an installed capacity of 1,575 MW translating to 70% of the country’s total installed capacity.
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