{"id":8321,"date":"2020-02-26T08:59:39","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T05:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=8321"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:53","slug":"kengens-geothermal-deals-in-ethiopia-good-for-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/02\/26\/kengens-geothermal-deals-in-ethiopia-good-for-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"KenGen\u2019s Geothermal Deals In Ethiopia Good For Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By George Wachira<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My article in this column last week was on how Kenyan firms with oil and gas experience and capacity can venture into the fast growing natural gas developments in Mozambique. This is what KenGen, the Kenyan power generating firm, has done in Ethiopia where the company is \u201cexporting\u201d its geothermal technical capacity gained over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And this is indeed a good story because firstly it proves that Kenya has sufficiently matured its geothermal technical \u201clocal content\u201d to international standards. And secondly, because Kengen will earn foreign exchange for Kenya while providing external contracting exposure to its employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\nchanced on this story in December last year when I passed a long and well\ncontrolled convoy of Kengen trucks carrying heavy equipment which I was\ninformed was heading north to Ethiopia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">KenGen,\nan acknowledged pioneer in geothermal generation in Africa, was awarded two\ngeothermal drilling projects in Ethiopia after competitively winning\ninternational tenders, which is a proof that the company has made the mark, and\nthat it can compete for similar jobs elsewhere in Africa, especially in those\ncounties that accommodate the Rift Valley and areas with volcanic geology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\nfirst of the two geothermal contracts in Ethiopia was awarded to Kengen and its\nconsortium partners by Ethiopian Electric Power (EEP) for the supply of\ngeothermal drilling rigs and accessories, as well as operation, and maintenance\nof the Aluto Langano Geothermal Plant which is on the Ethiopian Rift Valley\nabout 200km south of Addis Ababa. The project targets production of 75 MW of\ngeothermal electricity with a contract value of $6.0 million and is expected to\ntake one year to complete. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessdailyafrica.com\/analysis\/ideas\/KenGen-s-geothermal-deals-in-Ethiopia-good-for-Kenya\/4259414-5468690-5uahvk\/index.html\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By George Wachira My article in this column last week was on how Kenyan firms with oil and gas experience and capacity can venture into the fast growing natural gas&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8322,"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-8321","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\/8321","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=8321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}