Kenya Investment Authority (KenInvest) has partnered with Japanese and Australian developers to construct a $150 million hybrid power plant in Kenya. The project dubbed Meru County Energy Park was signed at the 7th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD 7) in Yokohama, Japan.
Meru County Energy Park is a large scale hybrid power plant that combines wind, solar PV and battery storage to produce electrical power.
The power plant will make use of 20 wind turbines and over 40,000 solar panels to produce 80 megawatts (MW) of clean, sustainable and renewable energy and is expected to power 200,000 Kenyan households.
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According to the MOU signed during the partnership, the project will be public-private based. It will bring development to Kenya and also enhance knowledge transfer and capacity building for the country.
Windlab’s CEO, Roger Price has hailed the project, stating that it is a world-leading innovation in the renewable energy sector.
Before this, the Kenya government in partnership with World Bank had set up a $47 million fund to fast track solar energy adoption in the country.
Since its inception in 1993, the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) has birthed various successful Japanese-African initiatives.
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