Lake Turkana Wind farm starts turbine tests in cheap power plan

Some of the wind turbines being off-loaded from the MV Kota Bakti at the port of Mombasa soon after the ship docked on April 13, 2016. The wind turbines will be off-loaded and transported by road to Turkana for the Lake Turkana Wind Power project. [PHOTO BY GIDEON MAUNDU/STANDARD].

Lake Turkana Wind Power Ltd (LTWP) has started testing the turbines at its Marsabit wind farm for power generation.

The company is gearing up to start feeding the national grid with electricity next year. It expects to generate an initial 90 megawatts (MW) by the second quarter of the year before reaching full capacity of 310MW by June.