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By 2030 Kenya aims to have 5,530 MW of geothermal power or 51% of total capacity. [5] This will make it Kenya's largest source of clean energy by 2030. Geothermal power plants have a prominent place in Kenya's overarching development plans. These include the Vision 2030, the NCCAP, and the current ‘5000+ MW in 40 months initiative’.
The Geothermal Development Company (GDC) is a wholly owned parastatal of the Government of Kenya. It is mandated to execute surface geothermal development, including prospecting for, drilling, harnessing and selling geothermal energy to electricity-generating companies for energy production and sale to the national grid. [1]
Quaise, Inc was founded in 2018 to develop a millimeter-wave drilling system for converting existing power stations to use superdeep geothermal energy. [1] The system would repurpose existing gyrotron technology to drill 20 kilometers beneath the surface, where temperatures exceed 400°C.
In 2014, the company received a US$950,000 grant from OPIC to offset some of the drilling expenses. [2] In March 2016, AGL accepted a grant of KSh138.9 million (approx. US$1.4 million), from the African Union Commission, to mitigate some of the costs of drilling the geothermal wells for the power station, that is on-going since August 2015. [3] [4]
In December 2018, Kenya Electricity Generating Company broke ground for the construction of Unit 6 of Olkaria I Geothermal Power Station, with capacity of 83 megawatts. Completion of this unit was expected in 2021, bringing total capacity at this geothermal station to 268.3 megawatts (359,800 hp). [ 11 ]
The geothermal field and its characteristics like stratigraphy, geochemistry and hydrothermal behavior are relatively well explored. [ 4 ] The Aluto—Langano Geothermal Power Station (dubbed Aluto–Langano I ) is the oldest geothermal power station in Ethiopia, established in 1998 with a nameplate capacity of 8.5 megawatts (11,400 hp) and a ...
The geothermal complex and power plants lie within the Hell's Gate National Park. [4] The Olkaria volcanic area is about 120 kilometres (75 mi) from Nairobi.It lies south of the Ol Doinyo Eburru complex and north of Mount Suswa; it is east of the rift valley's western margin and west of Mount Longonot, a stratovolcano. [5]
Olkaria IV Geothermal Power Station was commissioned by Uhuru Kenyatta, the president of Kenya, on 22 October 2014. [11] The 140 megawatts (187,743 hp) power station cost KSh11.5 billion (US$126.5 million) to build, co-financed by the World Bank , the Kenya government and the European Investment Bank .