The project – to be run by Japan’s Toyota Tsusho and Hyundai Engineering of Korea – will build a new 140MW Olkaria 4 plant at the site, 100km from Nairobi, and expand the existing Olkaria 1 facility by the same amount from its current 45MW.
The turnkey contract was awarded by state-owned Kenya Electricity Generating Company. The two Asian partners have selected Japan’s Toshiba to provide turbines for the project – its first geothermal supply contract in Africa.
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