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, a director at the consortium building the project said yesterday. Carlo Van Wageningen, founder of the project, said most of its 365 wind turbines had been erected and the last batch of 30 was due to arrive in Mombasa early next month. Denmark’s Vestas Wind Systems, the world’s biggest wind turbine maker, is supplying the turbines for the Sh70 billion ($674 million) project. Kenya Electricity Generating Company produces the country’s only wind power, but its capacity is just 25.5MW, whereas the Lake Turkana project will provide 310MW in total, adding to Kenya’s total current power generation capacity of about 2,341MW. The Lake Turkana Wind Power consortium comprises KP&P Africa BV and Aldwych International as co-developers among others.

Source: The Star January 19, 2017 02:44 UTC