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Devki eyes power sector with 60MW wind farm in Kwale

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Devki Group founder and chairman of Narendra Raval. [Edward Kiplimo, Standard]

Steel and cement firm Devki Group is set to diversify to power production with a planned wind farm in Kwale County.

The move will see wind as a source of power generation gain a deeper hold of the Kenya electricity sector, which has risen from a negligible amount in 2018 to account for 16 per cent of the power that Kenyans consumed last year.

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