{"id":8749,"date":"2020-03-24T08:36:08","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T05:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=8749"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:56","slug":"kengen-in-muranga-solar-panel-plant-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/03\/24\/kengen-in-muranga-solar-panel-plant-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Kengen In Murang\u2019a Solar Panel Plant Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>State-owned Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen)&nbsp;&nbsp;plans to set up a solar panel manufacturing factory in Murang\u2019 a county with an annual production capacity of 5MW to 10MW.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The factory will be located within KenGen Tana Power Station in Murang\u2019a, in an existing warehouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe new solar PV panel plant is expected to have 5MWe to 10MWe (peak electrical power) yearly production capacity,\u201d says KenGen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The electricity producer has floated an international tender inviting firms to bid for the construction of the plant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The successful company will design, supply, install, train and commission a silicon-based solar PV panel production plant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It will also provide enough solar PV panel materials for the initial production and also train KenGen staff for on-site and off-site operation and maintenance of the plant. Interested companies visited the site on March 18 and will submit proposals by April 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KenGen\u2019s announcement comes at a time that local and foreign investors are excited about the prospects of growth in the solar power industry in Kenya. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessdailyafrica.com\/markets\/marketnews\/KenGen-in-Murang-a-solar-panel-plant-plan\/3815534-5501652-6hd1e4\/index.html\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State-owned Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen)&nbsp;&nbsp;plans to set up a solar panel manufacturing factory in Murang\u2019 a county with an annual production capacity of 5MW to 10MW. The factory will&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8750,"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-8749","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\/8749","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=8749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}