Kenya joins big investors in renewable energy as EA plays catch-up
East Africa is emerging as a global renewable energy hub thanks to completed and ongoing projects to exploit clean power sources such as geothermal, hydro, wind, solar and biofuels. TEA GRAPHIC | NATION MEDIA GROUP
East Africa is emerging as a global renewable energy hub thanks to completed and ongoing projects to exploit clean power sources such as geothermal, hydro, wind, solar and biofuels, a global agency report says.
The 280-Megawatt Olkaria geothermal project helped propel Kenya to contribute more than half or 56 per cent of the world’s steam capacity addition in the year 2014, according to REN21, a Paris-based body hosted by the United Nations Environment Programme (Unep).
