Kenya plans to reach 100 percent renewable electricity by 2020

Lake Turkana Wind Farm (Source: Lake Turkana Wind Power)

Kenya has just launched Africa’s largest wind farm, the massive 310 MW Lake Turkana wind farm with 365 wind turbines on the eastern shores of the lake and located in a natural wind corridor. This wind farm brings Kenya’s renewable energy close to its goal of 100 percent renewable electricity by 2020. The country already gets much of its electricity from hydro and geothermal power plants.

Kenya has increased its nationwide electrification from 28% in 2013 to over 60% in 2017, and is on track to achieve 80% electrification by 2020. It was reported that currently six million homes, that is, 69.4 percent of the population have electricity grid connection. In addition, 9 million homes have access to off-grid renewable electricity and this figure is expected to increase in the near future.

Read more:
- Kenya moves closer to 100% renewables with completion of Africa’s biggest wind farm. RenewEconomy, July 23 2019.
- Lake Turkana Wind Power: https://ltwp.co.ke/