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Kenya to match Italy, join geothermal big boys club

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Nation | by Edwin Okoth


Kenya will this year match Italy in ranking of the world’s largest geothermal powerhouses when the 83-megawatt Olkaria plant is completed.

The country will also join the top five geothermal energy producers once KenGen’s public private partnership plan on the Olkaria VI plant is done with an additional 140MW power which will see Kenya’s capacity climb to 1,080MW in the next three years.

Four companies have since been shortlisted to work on the project, which will place Kenya above New Zealand’s 1,005MW installed capacity and…

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