Amu Power confirms construction of coal fired power plant in Kenya

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Published on Friday, 30 October 2015 07:06

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A consortium that is tasked with the construction of a coal fired power plant in Kenya Amu power, has confirmed that the building of the plant in Lamu will commence next year in January.

Amu Power is a company formed by a consortium of Centum and Gulf Energy.

The community liaison officer for Amu power Aboud Sheikhalifa confirmed the reports and said that all plans are set and ready for construction to begin.

“The construction is slated to begin on January 15, 2016 and all the plans are in place to make sure that everything goes on as scheduled,” said Mr. Sheikhalifa.

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Kenya closer to regional power trade

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Published on Tuesday, 27 October 2015 11:54

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Kenya’s plans to buy electricity from Ethiopia have reached a critical stage, with the expected signing of a $231 million (Sh23.6 billion) agreement to start construction of transmission infrastructure.

The Kenya Transmission Company (Ketraco) will tomorrow ink a deal with the African Development Bank (AfDB), World Bank and French Development Agency (AFD), who will finance the project. A consortium of Siemens AG (Germany) and IsoluxIngeniera SA (Spain) will be the contractors.

In 2011, Kenya, through electricity distributor Kenya Power, reached a deal with Ethiopia’s Electric Power Company (EEP) to import 400 megawatts of electricity to boost local capacity, which is below demand at just 2,298 MW. However, the absence of carrier infrastructure has delayed the implementation of this agreement.

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Kenya bets on solar power to bridge supply gap

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Published on Thursday, 29 October 2015 10:40

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The government is banking on solar power plants to bridge the electricity supply gap as it races to meet its target of increasing generation capacity by 5,000 megawatts by the end of next year.

Energy and Petroleum Principal Secretary Joseph Njoroge last week said he energy ministry is currently evaluating “numerous” proposals from investors to set up solar plants around the country before they strike power-purchase deals with Kenya Power.

“We have always preferred to use the least cost sources of electricity. However, the uptake of solar locally has been slowed by research to reduce the rates at which this form of energy is fed to the national grid,” said Mr Njoroge.

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Google eyes share in Lake Turkana wind power construction project in Kenya

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Published on Thursday, 22 October 2015 08:52

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Information Technology giant Google has announced that it was buying 12.5 per cent stake in Africa’s largest wind farm that is the Lake Turkana Wind Power construction project in Kenya.

The IT firm has agreed to purchase the stake in the wind farm project in Kenya from the project’s third-largest investor Vestas, when it becomes operational in 2018.

Google is set to invest US$40,000 in Lake Turkana wind power construction project in Kenya.

The announcement by Google to fund the project makes it part of a diverse group of international investors supporting the project, key among them the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (Opic), the US government’s development finance institution and Vestas, which is also supplying turbines for the wind farm.

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