KenGen plans to add up to 653 MW in geothermal capacity by 2023
Wellhead plants of British Green Energy Geothermal (GEG) at Olkaria, Kenya (source: GEG/ Lydur Skulason)
Alexander Richter
7 Jun 2017
With a combination of new development, refurbishment, public-private-partnerships and the application of wellhead power plants, KenGen expects to add up to 653 MW in geothermal power generation capacity by 2022.
In a recent overview presented at an internal event, KenGen presented an overview over its projects and plans for the next 5 years as related to renewable energy development.
Current projects:
- Olkaria V – financed by JICA, the company has been going through the procurement of an EPC contractor with a plan to add 158 MW in geothermal capacity in July 2019
- Olkaria I Unit 6 – financed by JICA, EIB and KfW, KenGen has been going through the procurement of an EPC contractor with a plan to add 70 MW in geothermal capacity in January 2019
- Olkaria I & IV, upgrade & top-up – financed by KfW and AfDB, company has completed the feasibility study and expects up to 47 MW to be added in September 2019,
- Wellhead modular plants, procurement of EPC contractor ongoing
- Olkaria I Refurbishment, KenGen has completed the feasibility study and expects up to 51 MW to be added in April 2020,
- Olkaria VI – to be financed under a Public-Private-Partnership model, bidding documents in preparation, with up to 140 MW to be added in September 2020,
- Olkaria VII – to be financed under a Public-Private-Partnership model, the feasibility study is ongoing, and 140 MW to be added in 2020.
KenGen further pushes the development of wind projects with 10 MW to be added in 2019 and 80 MW by July 2021.
Source: KenGen presentation
