Davis Chirchir, Secretary of the Energy and Petroleum Cabinets, has stated that the government plans to review power costs in the country following the completion of a green energy project in West Pokot County.
He stated that the 220k Turkwel-Ortum-Kitale transmission project will connect Ortum load centres to the National Grid while receiving two transformers at the Ortum Sub Station.
“We have had constraints evacuating power to all the power generations from the solar plants like Sendet and Selekei towards Eldoret. This inhibits us from generating power from Turkwel thus an overload from the line. After completing the plant, it will provide an alternative evacuation path for the Turkwel hydropower plant,” he said.
CS Chirchir added that this would improve access to reliable power while also providing a backup transmission evacuation route for the Turkwel power plant.
According to the CS, the power that has not been evacuated is the cheapest in the country.
Kenya has been plagued by transmission and technical failures, which have increased business costs.
