Kenya-based French solar firm Alten Africa has picked compatriot renewable energy firm Voltalia to build its 40-megawatt (MW) solar plant in Eldoret.
Alten said Voltalia it already started construction at the Uasin Gishu project last December.
The plant, located in Uasin Gishu, in the municipality of Eldoret, will have 40MW installed capacity, accounting for two percent of the country’s total capacity.
Alten said it has already informed electricity distributor Kenya Power #ticker:KPLC of its choice of the French Voltalia to carry out the construction and operation and maintenance service on the plant.
The solar project is to be built on a land area of 100 hectares and will have over 161,000 monocrystalline panels set into solar single-axis trackers.
Once it goes into commercial operation, scheduled for March 2020, approximately 123.6GWh of clean electricity will be injected every year into the electric network, enough to meet the annual energy consumption needs of over 824,000 Kenyans.
[Article source: Daily Nation, by Brian Ngugi]
