{"id":11674,"date":"2020-11-26T09:57:50","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T06:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=11674"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:31:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:31:20","slug":"kengen-unveils-elaborate-renewable-energy-project-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/11\/26\/kengen-unveils-elaborate-renewable-energy-project-pipeline\/","title":{"rendered":"KenGen unveils elaborate renewable energy project pipeline"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kenya Electricity Generating Company PLC (KenGen) has unveiled an elaborate renewable energy project pipeline focused on supporting the Government&#8217;s economic growth agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company&#8217;s focus in the next 12 months, according to the Managing Director &amp; CEO, Rebecca Miano, is to deliver the Olkaria I Unit 6 geothermal power plant which will add 83.3MW to the national grid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;KenGen is also continuing with its geothermal exploration program in Olkaria. To date, ee have drilled more than 310 wells to support our geothermal-led strategy,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition, Miano said, the procurement of the redevelopment of Olkaria I power plant which seeks to increase the plant&#8217;s installed capacity from the current 45MW to 50MW, and also extend its life by 25 years, was in the final stages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recently, KenGen shortlisted four firms for a Public Private Partnership (PPP) to implement Olkaria VI plant which is set to add 140MW to the national grid. <a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202011250436.html\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya Electricity Generating Company PLC (KenGen) has unveiled an elaborate renewable energy project pipeline focused on supporting the Government&#8217;s economic growth agenda. The company&#8217;s focus in the next 12 months,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}