Kenya: Nation Set to Float Gas Plant Tender

5 October 2011

Kenya plans to float a tender by early next year to build a liquefied natural gas terminal at its Mombasa port city as it pushes to diversify its sources of electricity to meet rising demand, a senior energy official said yesterday. Kenya to float Mombasa gas plant tender

Chronic power blackouts and higher electricity bills in Kenya are fuelling discontent as they push up living costs and cast doubts on the government's ability to fully implement its long-term economic vision. "We have decided to diversify our primary sources of power generation through construction of a liquefied natural gas import handling, storage and regasification facility at Dongo Kundu, Mombasa," the energy ministry's permanent secretary, Patrick Nyoike, told a national energy conference. "The tender is expected to be floated by February 2012."

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