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  • Kenya adds first 140MW at Olkaria geothermal project

    Posted on :Thursday , 14th August 2014

     Local news source informs that Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) has added 140MW to the national grid from the 280 MW Olkaria geothermal project. The 140MW is from two units – one of which has already completed reliability test while the other is expected to complete the test by mid August.

  • Energy Investment In Africa Starts To Make Headway

    Posted on :Thursday , 14th August 2014

     ADDIS ABABA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – As Washington hosts the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit this week, an ambitious but low-profile energy programme announced by President Barack Obama in June 2013 is set to move back into the spotlight.

     
    Power Africa is a U.S. government-led initiative around two-thirds funded by the private sector that aims to double . . .

  • Kenya Boosts Wind Power In Its Renewable Energy Mix

    Posted on :Thursday , 14th August 2014

     NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Kenya is set to gain more wind farms as the East African country moves to increase and diversify its clean energy resources.

     
     
    Nairobi-based company Bluesea Energy Ltd has announced it will begin producing 40 megawatts (MW) in the second half of 2015 at its flagship wind power plant in Meru, expandi. . .

  • Kenya: Universities Goes Big On Solar Power Use

    Posted on :Wednesday , 13th August 2014

     Nairobi — "Kenya sits on the Equator making it a country that has the sun the whole year. But it is a paradox because you have less than 2 percent of solar power installations," muses Professor Izael Pereira Da Silva, Director of Energy Research Cent. . .

  • Tanzania: Tap Energy Potential

    Posted on :Wednesday , 13th August 2014

     TANZANIA is endowed with a huge 4,000mw-cheap geothermal energy potential and the Vice-President, Dr Mohamed Gharib Bilal, has challenged geoscientists in the country and Africa to tap it for the betterment of the people.

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