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Geothermal power boosts electricity supply, reliability

Geothermal power boosts electricity supply, reliability
Geothermal power plant in Olkaria.

Last week, consumers got an early Christmas gift from Stima Plaza when power-generating company KenGen announced impressive figures on the country’s energy situation in the third quarter of this year.

For the first time in Kenya’s history, the country saw more power generated from geothermal sources than from traditional, rainfall-reliant hydroelectric generation.

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