Switch-on of Kenya’s 310MW Lake Turkana wind farm – Africa’s largest – marks a new chapter in the continent’s renewable energy transition, with power soon to be flowing to some one million households, equal to 15% of national demand. 

With the final rotor of 365 now in place, Darius Snieckus spoke with Morten Dyrholm, group senior vice president for communications, marketing and public affairs at OEM Vestas, which both supplied the turbines and built the project ‘from scratch’.

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