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No watts from Menengai a decade after the promise

By Kennedy Gachuhi | 4yrs ago

A Geothermal development Company steam well in Menengai, Nakuru County. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]

In February 2011, Geothermal Development Company (GDC) began drilling of the first well at Menengai Crater to tap the naturally occurring geothermal energy.

The project gave hopes to Kenyans that the cost of electricity would drop. It was set to inject 400 Megawatts (MW) to the national grid by 2014 and 800MW by 2016 when completed.

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