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Lake Turkana Power project eyes first output

Kenya’s Lake Turkana Wind Power project aims to start supplying electricity as early as September 2016, once a transmission line is built linking the remote northern region to the national grid, a director of the project has said.

The 310 megawatt (MW) project, originally aimed for start-up in 2011, has been delayed in part because it was awaiting a 428-km high-voltage line linking the area. The transmission line was approved in August 2014 and will take about two years to build.

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