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Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) will pump an extra 83MW of geothermal power into the national grid by January 2022.
The 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, takes place against the backdrop of a growing global climate crisis.
KenGen and the Nairobi Metropolitan Services have partnered to develop a waste powered energy plant in Nairobi.
In the new project, the Inter-Africa Coffee Organisation (IACO) is targeting popularising consumption in military barracks, learning institutions, and petrol stations as new outlets that would cascade the beverage’s consumption in the continent.
This came as Naivasha-based Rift Valley Roses and Ecoligo Solar Company launched the floating solar project in the country. The solar system has been installed on one of the reservoirs in the farm and can produce 69 kilowatts of power - providing the flower farm with clean energy.
A May 2021 report by Charity Christian Aid says that by 2050 the changing climate will slash Kenya's optimal tea production conditions by over a quarter. This would hurt farmers and workers alike.
The society’s chair Joyce Wanjiku said the cooperation and hard work that existed among the management team, farmers and marketers is a direct implication of the impressive sale that led farmers smiling to their banks.
The Kenya Petroleum Refineries Ltd (KPRL) was assumed to have breathed its last nearly a decade ago when it stopped refining crude oil imported into the country.
The farmers have identified the high cost of electricity and frequent power outages as some of the major challenges currently facing the sector that rakes in billions of shillings every year.