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President Uhuru Kenyatta to commission Lake Turkana Wind Power this week

Part of the turbines at Lake Turkana Wind Power farm at Sarima, near Lake Turkana in Laisamis, Marsabit County (Photo ALI ABDI/STANDARD).

NAIROBI, KENYA: President Uhuru Kenyatta will on Wednesday commission Lake Turkana Wind Power (LTWP) in Marsabit County.

LTWP, which is the largest wind farm in Africa, has an installed capacity of 310MW of clean, reliable, low-cost energy and has 365 wind turbines with a capacity of 850kW each.

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