Kenya: Geothermal Power Will Cut Cost of Electricity

opinion

Recently, sections of the press reported that the Geothermal Development Company has realised 479MW in Olkaria and Menengai geothermal projects. Ironically, the same script noted that GDC has not achieved anything since its creation five years ago.

To argue that GDC's achievement is unimpressive is being grossly naïve, ignorant or malicious. Those in the know will confirm that to develop 479MW is no mean fete. It is a product of massive infrastructural works, rigorous scientific studies, and donkey years of intense operations. Just imagine, 50 years since independence, Kenya's total electricity output is still a wobbly 1,700MW. Yet the 479MW that GDC has achieved in the last five years or so, is about a third of the national grid.

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