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A first for Africa

Kenya Power and the ministry of energy and petroleum to see how we can develop more biogas projects for organic and municipal waste in the country.” The energy plant will also be used as a research facility for scientists at Oxford University, who will study the facility to identify ways of advancing the technology to compete with conventional fossil fuel power generation. Tropical Power has revealed plans to add 10MW of solar energy capacity at the same site next year. The company is in the final stages of fundraising and planning for the proposed solar development, and hopes to begin work within the next 12 months.

Africa's first grid-connected anaerobic digestion plant has been opened in Kenya. Developed by Tropical Power Energy Group, the2.2MWGorgeFarmEnergyPark, inKenya's Nakuru county, will use local crop waste to create biogas for electricity generation. KinuthiaMbugua, governor of Nakurucounty, said the project would provide a boost to the country's energy security. “The Gorge Farm Energy Park is a showcase project for Nakuru, Kenya and the African continent,” he said in a statement. “Distributed power projects are vital to our energy security, reliability and efficiency, and the park will be using local crop waste and the sun to generate clean, renewable power close to the point of use. I look forward to working with Tropical Power,

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