KenGen eyes geothermal tenders in 8 African states

[MK254]

State-owned Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) is eyeing lucrative geothermal infrastructure tenders in nine African countries, officials have said.

KenGen, which last October won a Sh5.2 billion tender to drill geothermal wells in Ethiopia, the second win in the landlocked country in under four months, said it is eyeing similar deals in Uganda, Tanzania, Djibouti, Rwanda, South Sudan, The Sudan, Zambia and Comoros to boost revenues.

The African states, which share Kenya’s favourable and geothermal rich Rift Valley geology, are playing catch up in their efforts to exploit the renewable and cheap geothermal energy.

Heads of government and top officials from the eight African countries have already been hosted at KenGen’s plants in Naivasha or are set to visit as talks continue on the deals.

“We have ready capacity to help these countries exploit their geothermal resources. We are already doing this for Ethiopia and we are in talks with these countries on how to collaborate with them,” said Cyrus Karingithi, the assistant manager, resource development and infrastructure at the KenGen in an interview with Business Daily.

Last October, KenGen said it has reached an agreement with an independent power producer (IPP), Tulu Moye Geothermal Operations located in the eastern region of Ethiopia, to drill wells and offer geo-scientific survey.

Under the deal, KenGen which sunk its first exploratory well in 1956, will provide geo-scientific survey and drilling eight geothermal wells. A geothermal well costs about Sh650 million.

The Ugandan minister for Energy Irene Nafuna Muloni is expected to visit KenGen’s Olkaria plants for further talks.

Source: Business Daily

 

[Geza Ulole]

Hakuna tender Tanzania kwa nchi ya kitu kidogo! Songwe airport is a testimony of incompetence by companies from Kunyaland! Sort out ur impunity first in most of ur projects that r way overpriced!

 

[pingli-nywee]

Hakuna tender Tanzania kwa nchi ya kitu kidogo! Songwe airport is a testimony of incompetence by companies from Kunyaland!

Sasa nyinyi mtapewa tender na nchi gani, hata hapa ukanda huu wa A.M? Labda kule kwa Nkurunzinza Burundi mkawajengee 'expansion joint'. KenGen wana miradi miwili Ethiopia na sasa Uganda. Nyang'au ataendelea tu kuchangamkia hizi fursa, upende usipende.

 

[Geza Ulole]

Sasa nyinyi mtapewa tender na nchi gani, hata hapa ukanda huu wa A.M? Labda kule kwa Nkurunzinza Burundi mkawajengee 'expansion joint'. KenGen wana miradi miwili Ethiopia na sasa Uganda. Nyang'au ataendelea tu kuchangamkia hizi fursa, upende usipende.

The likes of Songoro marine n Estim construction have projects in Kunyaland n executed them with diligence.The same can't be said of KenGen! Sorry no project should be awarded to this company or DP Shapriya or Dalbit in Tanzanian soil!

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[Kafrican]

Hakuna tender Tanzania kwa nchi ya kitu kidogo! Songwe airport is a testimony of incompetence by companies from Kunyaland! Sort out ur impunity first in most of ur projects that r way overpriced!

Uganda Delegation Visit to Olkaria Geothermal firm Yesterday (Yes, as in Jana 4th March 2020)








Delegation ya Uganda imekua Kenya wiki nzima wakitembelea vituo tofauti vya Kengen for benchmarking.... Pia walianya bilateral ministerial meetings ambapo deal kadhaa na MOUs zilitiwa sign

 

[Kafrican]

The UG delegation visit also coincided with the launching of a new plant in Olkaria where 165MW was operationalized and will be under testing for the next one month before being connected to the National grid

 

[Kafrican]

135 Trucks from KenGen Arrived in Tulu, Ethiopia to begin drilling geothermal wells, This contract is worth $56m

Ma engineers wote ni wakenya!

 

[Kafrican]

Kengen pia ilipiga dealna TMGO(the first Independednt power project in Ethiopia) ya Ethiopia kufanya Technology transfer ambapo wa Ethiopia watakuja Kenya kusomea Geothermal engineering

Wa Ethiopia watakao pata mafunzo Kenya ni 400 ndani ya miaka mitano, 40 kutoka tulu Ethiopia ambapo visima vinachimbwa pia wamechaguliwa kupata mafunzo, jamii ya tulu ilikabidhi zawadi tofauti tofauti ikiwemo Mbuzi kwa TMGO kwa kuhakikisha wakaazi wa hilo eneo wanahusishwa katika uchimbaji huu wa visima kwa kupata elimu na mafunzo kupitia Kengen

 

[Kafrican]

Kwasasa nchi ambazo zimepiga deal na Kengen kupewa huduma na geothermal ni

 

[Kafrican]

Hio dili ya Tulu Mole Ethiopia ni dili ya kuchimba visima 12 ili kuzalisha 50MW in phase 1, and 150MW by 2025. Hii dili ya $56m na TMGO ni dili kati ya Kengen na kampuni ya kibinasfi inayochimba visima huko Ethiopia.




Kuna dili nyengine kubwa zaidi ambayo ni kati ya KenGen na Serekali ya Ethiopia kupitia EEP (Ethiopia Electric Power) hio dili ni ya $575 Million!!!! Ambapo World Bank's IDA ndo itakopesha Ethiopia hizo pesa za kulipa Kengen.

 

[Kafrican]

Kufikia Jana Kengen ilikua imemaliza kuunganisha Drilling rig ya kwanza huko Ethiopia, Yani ni kama ndoto hivi kuona kampuni ya kikenya inafanya kazi kama hivi..... tumezoea wachina na wazungu wanakuja Africa kubakura tender za project kubwa kama hizi...

 

[pingli-nywee]

Kwasasa nchi ambazo zimepiga deal na Kengen kupewa huduma na geothermal ni

Hongera kwa KenGen, hapa mchawi Geza lazima anywe mzinga wa Konyagi kwasababu ya maumivu.

 

[nomasana]

Geza hatarudi hapa Tena. Wanachama wa kamati ya roho chafu hutawapata hapa

 

[Mekatilili]

Great work by KenGen

 

[vulcan]

ha ha Bongolalas with their usual hate...nacheka peke yangu

 

[eddy25r]

Almost at 3000MW

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[Geza Ulole]

Uganda Delegation Visit to Olkaria Geothermal firm Yesterday (Yes, as in Jana 4th March 2020)








Delegation ya Uganda imekua Kenya wiki nzima wakitembelea vituo tofauti vya Kengen for benchmarking.... Pia walianya bilateral ministerial meetings ambapo deal kadhaa na MOUs zilitiwa sign

Ethiopia signs $800 mln geothermal power purchase agreement


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Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed addresses the legislators on the current situation of the country inside the Parliament Buildings in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia February 3, 2020. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia has signed a power purchase agreement worth $800 million with the developers of a 150 MW geothermal plant, the prime minister said on Thursday.

The Horn-of-Africa nation, which is the second most populous on the continent, has the second biggest electricity deficit in Africa according to the World Bank, with about two thirds of the population lacking a connection to the grid.

“Geothermal enhances our energy security by providing constant output power to support industrialisation,” Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Twitter, adding that it was the first such power purchase agreement to reach such an advanced stage in the country.

Geothermal power refers to the use of underground hot steam to drive turbines which in turn generate electricity.
It makes up a huge portion of the sources of electricity in neighbouring Kenya, which has abundant geothermal resources on the floor of the Rift Valley.

Ethiopia’s Tulu Moye Geothermal plant, which signed the deal with the government, expects to start generating 50 MW of power when the first phase is completed in February 2023, rising to 150 MW at full completion in 2025, it said.

Drilling of steam wells started last month, the company said.

Located in the Arsi Zone to the southeast of the capital, the plant is being developed by the Tulu Moye Geothermal Operations (TMGO), a holding company for Paris based investment firm Meridiam SAS and Icelandic firm Reykjavik Geothermal.

Ethiopia signs $800 mln geothermal power purchase agreement

MY TAKE
Seems no one trust watu wa kitu kidogo! Even a dear IGAD member! Now Mpesa is next!

#Akilizahandshake#

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