The Olkaria II plant in Kenya’s Rift Valley, inaugurated in March 2004, is the first geothermal power station in Africa. It generates electricity by pumping water down to volcanic hot areas and using ...

Kenya Electricity Generation (KenGen), the country’s biggest power producer, has named four companies as pre-qualified bidders for the expansion of the Olkaria geothermal plants. Alstom of France and ...

In May 2024, inWashington, President Ruto announced the largest private digital investment inKenya's history: a $1 billion (Sh130 billion) Microsoft and G42 data centre at Olkaria, poweredby our ...

Kenya is readying to kick off construction of the 35-MW Menengai geothermal power project in Nakuru County as part of the first phase of the wider Menengai complex, the country’s second large-scale ...

NAIROBI, KENYA: The Government of Japan and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) on Wednesday signed a Loan Agreement respectively with Kenya for the Official Development Assistance Loan ...

There is a particular kind of validation that arrives not through applause, but through an invitation.When the international geothermal community decided that the 2029 World Geothermal Congress, the ...

Beneath Kenya, the African tectonic plate is splitting in two. That cleave creates hydrothermal vents, ripe for harnessing geothermal energy. This is a renewable source of energy derived from hot ...

NAIVASHA, KENYA - Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) said that its new geothermal plant under construction in the Rift Valley is expected to generate more power than previous estimates.

9 March 2009 – Ormat Technologies, Inc. has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, OrPower 4, Inc., concluded the closing under its previously announced loan documents for up to $105m project ...

Elders from the Kikuyu and the Maasai communities have asked the government to settle wrangles at Olkaria in Naivasha. The geothermal-rich area has split the two communities over equal sharing of ...