Steel and cement firm Devki Group has applied for a license to establish a 60-megawatt wind farm in Kinango, Kwale County.
Through a disclosure to the National Environment Management Authority (Nema) it plans to construct and operate the 60-megawatt wind farm to generate electricity to be sold to the national grid “as per the Feed-in-Tariff Policy for wind”.
“The proposed project is to be located at Samburu, off Mombasa-Nairobi Road within Kinango sub-county, Kwale County,” it said.
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“These site wind conditions favour the site for the production of electricity from wind using a low-wind turbine, a turbine which reaches rated capacity at a low wind speed rather than one with a higher,” said Devki in the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (Esia) report.
“The proposed wind farm will be built by installing thirty-eight wind turbines to generate electricity for the national grid.”
If approved, the farm would be the fourth wind power plant in Kenya after KenGen’s Ngong wind plant (26.1MW) in Kajiado County, Lake Turkana Wind Power (LTWP) plant (310MW) in Marsabit County, and Kipeto Wind (100MW), also in Kajiado.
