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Why Lake Turkana Wind Power is a transformational project for Kenya and East Africa

Lake Turkana Wind Power (LTWP). [Ali Abdi/Standard]

Lake Turkana Wind Power’s (LTWP) decade-old journey, from humble origins to Africa’s largest wind farm and Kenya’s single largest private sector investment, has encountered many obstacles.

But nothing has tested the collective resolve of both public and private stakeholders, involved in this project, as the barrage of negativity that engulfed what should have been a joyous occasion when the much-awaited 436km transmission interconnector was energised, paving the way for clean, reliable, affordable power. The interconnector links the 310.25MW power plant to the national grid at Suswa.

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