Kenya Electricity Hydro-Power Generation to Fall to 45% in 2014

Kenya Electricity Generating Co., the East African nation’s biggest power producer, said it will reduce hydropower’s share of total output to less than half within two years as geothermal production increases.

The company, based in Nairobi, will begin providing 280 megawatts of electricity from its Olkaria IV plant to the national grid by 2014, Managing Director Eddy Njoroge said. Production at the facility, supplemented by output from an extension to Olkaria I, will reduce hydropower’s share to 45 percent from the current 60 percent, he said.