{"id":3918,"date":"2019-07-22T07:35:14","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T07:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3918"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:25","slug":"kenya-launches-largest-wind-power-plant-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/07\/22\/kenya-launches-largest-wind-power-plant-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya Launches Largest Wind Power Plant In Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>By CNN<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kenya has launched Africa&#8217;s largest wind power farm in a bid to\nboost electricity generating capacity and to meet the country&#8217;s ambitious goal\nof&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2018\/12\/kenya-wants-to-run-entirely-on-green-energy-by-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">100%\ngreen energy by 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The farm, known as\nthe&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ltwp.co.ke\/ltwp-connected-to-grid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lake\nTurkana Wind Power (LTWP)<\/a>&nbsp;will generate around 310 megawatts of power to the\nnational grid and will increase the country&#8217;s electricity supply by 13%,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-a5JeLeAkbI&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">President\nUhuru Kenyatta<\/a>&nbsp;said at the launch of the project on Friday.<a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2016\/12\/12\/africa\/de-aar-solar-south-africa\/index.html\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, we again raised the bar for the\ncontinent as we unveil Africa&#8217;s single largest wind farm,&#8221; Kenyatta said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Kenya is without\ndoubt on course to be a global leader in renewable energy.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The project is powered\nby the Turkana corridor wind, a low level jet stream originating from the\nIndian Ocean and blows all year round, according to a&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.president.go.ke\/2019\/07\/16\/press-statement-by-state-house-spokesperson-ms-kanze-dena-mararo-at-state-house-nairobi-on-16th-july-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">government\nstatement<\/a>.\n<a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2019\/07\/20\/africa\/africas-largest-wind-farm-intl\/index.html\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By CNN Kenya has launched Africa&#8217;s largest wind power farm in a bid to boost electricity generating capacity and to meet the country&#8217;s ambitious goal of&nbsp;100% green energy by 2020.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3919,"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-3918","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\/3918","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=3918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}