Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) today hosted the Vice President of the European Investment Bank (EIB), Mr. Thomas Östros at the Olkaria Geothermal Power Plant. The visit showcased the longstanding partnership between KenGen and EIB and explored potential areas of partn...
Kiptoo observed that bulk of electricity was generated from renewable sources, making Kenya a global leader in renewable energy. He observed that the state-owned Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) is the county's largest power producer accounting for 62.98 percent of the country's effectiv...
The article provides information on Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen). The huge public demand for shares in KenGen underscores the country's bid to increase its generating capacity rapidly to cater for an...
9 (Xinhua) -- Kenya plans to reduce the percentage contribution of hydropower to the total energy output because its vulnerability to climate change, an official said on Friday. State-owned Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) Chief Energy Planner Willis Ochieng told Xinhua in Nairobi that...
About the company Kenya Power and Lighting Company Plc is engaged in the transmission, distribution and retail of electricity purchased in bulk from Kenya Electricity Generating Company Limited (KenGen), Independent Power Producers (IPPs), Uganda Electricity Transmission Company Limited (UETCL) and Tanzan...
Despite having an elaborate climate change law, Kenya has, until now, lacked a clear mechanism enabling the trading of carbon credits. This is despite companies like KenGen already generating carbon credits. Earlier this year, for instance, the electricity generating company disclosed the planned...
Although the Privatization Law was enacted in 2005, modest steps have been made on privatizing of parastatals apart from Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) and the concession of Kenya Railways, while civil service reform is limited despite the government's assertion that reforms would be ...
Kenya power paid capacity charges totalling Sh47.4 billion, representing more than half of the company’s cost of sales of Sh87.4 billion. It buys power from 20 generators, but Kengen, OrPower, Lake Turkana account for 79 percent of the firm’s bulk electricity purchase costs. ...
Olkaria geothermal field is so far the largest producing site with current installed capacity of 674.4 MWe from five power plants and wellheads owned by Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) (533.5MWe), Oserian (4.3 MWe) and Orpower4 (139 MWe). 12 MWt is being utilized to heat ...
Broadly speaking, the stakeholders involved included the Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC), the Kenya Electricity Generating Company Limited (KENGEN), the Electricity Regulatory Board (ERB), the Kenya Association of Manufactures (KAM), the Global Environmental Facility (GEF), the Ministry of ...