The company, Kinangop Wind Park, says it will apply for a power generation licence from Kenya’s energy regulator next month.

The project will be located on the Kinangop Plateau in central Kenya.

Kenya wants to build alternative clean-energy sources alongside its existing hydropower infrastructure, which has seen its output hit by several years of drought.

The country's first wind farm, the 5MW Ngong Hills facility near Nairobi, entered service last year powered by six Vestas turbines.

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