Kenya’s plan to build the largest wind farm
in Africa is about to become a reality. The Lake Turkana Wind Power
consortium (LTWP) is expected to be operational in 2018 and aims to provide 300
MW of low-cost electrical power. With a
projected cost of KES 70 billion (USD 800
million), it would be the largest single
private investment in Kenya’s history and largest wind power project in Africa.
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I hope they won’t behave like the foolish kinangop idiots who chased away the wind farm company because they said wind power will bring gamma rays
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Gamma rays??? I think that’s nuclear
LET me look for that article for you
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ok but this time it is in a remote part of the country so no excuses
hii kitu ishaanza I think, almost 50% complete
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It was more like they wanted to be chotewad.
Am waiting for electricity prices to go down…but proud… another one in the bag for Kenya
si hii pia ni project ya baba
What will be the cost per kwh of this wind power?
Ni
ni Ya the crown prince, fuda
UNATAKA KUNYANGANYA @spear KAZI YAKE YA SERIKALI .
Tupewe picture ya completed work hizi vitu huwa tunaziona Thika road zikipita tu
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si mungesema ziletwe kisii ,ama hata mahali ya kuzikana hamna?brare fukin
The idiots were being compensated.
achia @spear hizi news…he does best
If you entrust you technology policy formulation with a politician who reading anything scientific ended in primary school, what do you expect?
GO KENYA
Kauze nyama ya punda
I’m from Western bush meat trader. Kumbaffu…tell your fellow kinangop residents that now that the wind farms shut forever, let them plant potatoes and it will makes them rich
NAIROBI, May 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A planned $144 million wind farm project in Central Kenya has run into opposition from farmers who fear being forced to sell their land and allege that the wind turbines could cause health problems.
FROM REUTERS
The Kenyan developers of the Kinangop Wind Park clean energy project say they will pay farmers for any land offered, and that no one will be required to sell their property.
They say they have also adhered to international standards in planning the 16-square-kilometre project at the foot of the Aberdare mountain range - and that Kenya needs the energy.
The plant aims to provide electrical power to 150,000 Kenyan homes by 2018.
But protests over the project have left one dead and led to the Nairobi-Western Kenya highway being blocked briefly in February. A lawsuit by farmers seeking to stop the project until their questions are answered has been filed in Kenya’s courts, a protest leader said.
Local officials say fears about the project have been fanned by opposition politicians looking for political gain before 2017 general elections in Kenya.
“All the problems around this project are a result of incitement by (opposition) politicians taking advantage of people’s ignorance about this project to excite emotions,” Waithaka Mwangi, the governor of Nyandarua County, where the project is located, told a public rally in the area recently.
The protests have come as a surprise in power-short Kenya, where the government has made finding new ways to generate electricity one of its priorities.
“The government is here to assure you that this project is for the good of the whole country and is meant to help accelerate growth that we all so badly need,” William Ruto, Kenya’s deputy president, told placard-carrying protesters in February.