Ghosts of past tenders return to haunt KenGen

Engineers from Green Energy Group work on one of the wellhead generators in Olkaria. (Photo: File/Standard)

A new Sh14.4 billion wellhead tender awarded by the Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) to lease 50MW units at Olkaria has been hit by procurement controversies, making it the second such project to face allegations of impropriety.

KenGen awarded the tender in July this year for the leasing of 50MW wellheads, which are geothermal power generation units, to RentCo East Africa Ltd, in a consortium with Lantech (Kenya) and Toshiba, a Japanese company.