{"id":5156,"date":"2019-09-06T10:27:44","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T07:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5156"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:31","slug":"how-kenyas-mega-wind-power-project-is-hurting-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/09\/06\/how-kenyas-mega-wind-power-project-is-hurting-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"How Kenya\u2019s Mega Wind Power Project Is Hurting Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By\n<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/profiles\/zoe-cormack-807975\">Zoe Cormack<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kenya recently&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/07\/22\/the-biggest-wind-farm-in-africa-is-officially-up-and-running.html\">launched<\/a>&nbsp;the\nLake Turkana Wind Power project, Africa\u2019s largest wind energy project and the\nbiggest public-private investment in Kenyan history. The wind farm will produce\n300MW of low-cost renewable energy for Kenya\u2019s national grid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kenya is already a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2018\/12\/kenya-wants-to-run-entirely-on-green-energy-by-2020\/\">leader\nin green energy<\/a>; 70% of its electricity comes from renewable sources, all\npart of the government\u2019s plans to&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/vision2030.go.ke\/project\/development-of-new-and-renewable-sources-of-energy\/\">promote\nrenewable energy<\/a>&nbsp;in line with the national development strategy,\nVision 2030. The Lake Turkana Wind Power project is a key component of this\nvision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake Turkana Wind Power project occupies a vast\nconcession of over 607km2. The wind farm development occupies 162 km2 of that\nlarger concession. It\u2019s located in the Sarima valley in Marsabit County,\nnorthern Kenya, on the shores of Lake Turkana. This is a long neglected part of\nthe country and the communities living there have been deeply ambivalent\ntowards the project. <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/how-kenyas-mega-wind-power-project-is-hurting-communities-122061\">Read\nmore\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Zoe Cormack Kenya recently&nbsp;launched&nbsp;the Lake Turkana Wind Power project, Africa\u2019s largest wind energy project and the biggest public-private investment in Kenyan history. The wind farm will produce 300MW of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5157,"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-5156","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\/5156","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=5156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}