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Engineers from KenGen work on one of the geothermal wells in Olkaria Naivasha. Kengen will pump an extra 86mw into the national grid in the next two months. [Antony Gitonga, Standard]

The country's push for green energy has received a major boost with KenGen announcing plans to tap in an extra 63 megawatts of electricity into the national grid by June next year.

According to the power generation company, rehabilitation of the Olkaria I power plant was at 70 percent complete.

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