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Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Kenya: Geothermal Developer Receives Award for “Continued and Deliberate Focus on Renewable Energy"


KenGen Managing Director & CEO, Mrs.
Rebecca Miano (left) receiving the award
 from KenGen Regulatory and  Corporate
Affairs Director, Eng. Simon Ngure (right).
Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) has been named the best sustainable power producer in East Africa in the London-based Capital Finance International Awards (CFI.co Awards).

The Nairobi bourse-listed KenGen earned the top spot among regional electricity producers for its “continued and deliberate focus on renewable energy – which now accounts for 84 per cent of the company’s power sources.” 

Geothermal is currently at 533.8 MW (of which 81.1 MW is from wellheads technology) representing about 32% of the total installed capacity. 

It comes at a time when KenGen is putting finishing touches to its 165.4 MW Olkaria V Geothermal Project in Naivasha, which is due for commissioning in July this year. The new plant will expand KenGen’s geothermal capacity to 699.4 MW from the current 534 MW.