KenGen promises to switch on 168MW plant in 2019

KenGen Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Mrs. Rebecca Miano with other KenGen top officials speaking to journalists during a media tour to the Olkaria V in Naivasha on February 15,2018(James Wanzala,Standard)

The 168MW Olkaria V geothermal power plant will be operational by next year.

The plant is part of the Kenya Electricity Generating Company's (KenGen) ambitious green energy project aimed at delivering an additional 701 megawatts (MW) of renewable energy by 2019 at a cost of Sh135 billion.