Ideas & Debate KenGen’s geothermal deals in Ethiopia good for KenyaGeothermal readily attracts project funding from global multilateral investment institutions and private equity. This is what Kengen, the Kenyan power generating firm, has done in Ethiopia where the company is “exporting” its geothermal technical capacity gained over years. And this is indeed a good story because, firstly it proves that Kenya has sufficiently matured its geothermal technical “local content” to international standards. Unfortunately our public procurement laws are not flexible enough to accommodate a bias to proactively and affirmatively assist in developing Kenyan technical local content. With the abundance of geothermal resource, and ready technical capacity to develop it, geothermal should be on top of our generation mix as a matter of accepted policy and priority.

Source: The North Africa Journal February 25, 2020 19:01 UTC