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Kenya steps up geothermal power
Posted by AlertNet: Geoffrey Kamadi on October 3rd, 2012
AlertNet: Kenya has inaugurated Africa's biggest geothermal power project in a bid to meet its growing need for electricity and lower its consumption of nonrenewable energy.
The 280 megawatt (MW) Olkaria Geothermal Project was commissioned by Kenya's president, Mwai Kibaki, in July. It is being built at a cost of 82.5 billion Kenyan shillings ($980 million) and is due for completion in June 2014.
Experts say that it should be an important source of "green' energy in a country that has seen its hydropower...
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Solar pump project aims to ease Kenyan water shortages
Posted by AlertNet: Geoffrey Kamadi on January 23rd, 2012
AlertNet: Blue skies and sunshine don't make Joseph Katitu a happy man.
The 49-year-old sorghum farmer and father of nine shakes his head at the glaring sun as the last cloud fades in the sky above him.
"Mvua haitakuya (The rain will not come)!' he sighs.
The lack of gathering clouds is an ominous sign that Tseikuru District, some 230 km (150 miles) east of Kenya's capital Nairobi, will have to wait a while longer before the heavens open again.
But the power of the sun will soon be turned to the...