| Updated Thu, January 19th 2017 at 00:00 GMT +3Lake Turkana wind power project {Photo Courtesy}Africa’s biggest wind power scheme, the Lake Turkana Wind Power project in Kenya, should be fully connected to the national electricity grid and producing power by the end of June. Denmark’s Vestas Wind Systems, the world’s biggest wind turbine maker, is supplying the turbines for the $674 million (Sh70 billion) project. Of those, we have by tomorrow (Thursday), 120 turbines fully connected to the substation and therefore ready to deliver 110MW of power,” Van Wageningen told Reuters in a phone interview. The east African nation relies heavily on renewables such as geothermal and hydro power for its electricity supply. Kenya Electricity Generating Co produces the country’s only wind power, but its capacity is just 25.5 MW, whereas the Lake Turkana project will provide 310MW in total, adding to Kenya’s total current power generation capacity of about 2,341 megawatts.

Source: Standard Digital January 18, 2017 20:26 UTC