Geothermal

Recent news coming from Kenya Power has been generating more heat than light and the company risks being swallowed whole by the ensuing financial storm. The deteriorating financial health of…

Kenya constructed its first geothermal plant in 1981, the Olkaria 1. The East African nation has since built a fleet of other geothermal plants in Rift Valley steam fields, emerging…

Kenya has allocated $93 million (Sh9.3 billion) for development of geothermal energy in the 2020/21 financial year starting next month. Treasury minister Ukur Yatani announced the allocation in his budget…

Solar energy costs have dropped by the steepest margin in the last 10 years among renewable sources, even as hydropower recorded an uptick. The price of electricity generated from utility-scale…

Kenya is among a handful of nations worldwide generating and consuming electricity almost completely from renewable sources. Geothermal is serving as Kenya’s baseload while hydropower stations, which are very flexible…

Government-owned power producer KenGen is for the first time teaming up with private investors to develop power plants, starting with a 140MW geothermal facility. The company has shortlisted bidders to…

Until August 2017, Kenya’s capital Nairobi relied on a single overburdened transmission line for geothermal power supply from the steam fields of Rift Valley. Even as the country prioritised geothermal…

The board of Geothermal Development Company (GDC) has picked Jared Othieno as the new managing director. Engineer Othieno takes over from the outgoing boss Johnson Ole Nchoe, who sat in…

Africa accounts for a paltry 1.9 percent of the global share of developed renewable energy capacity, casting a light on the continent’s vastly untapped market. Data compiled by the International…

The story of Kenya’s latest geothermal power plant to go live, Olkaria V, goes back to January 2017 when construction works took off. From the barren, rugged fields full of…