UN officials have hailed Kenya’s plan to expand investments in renewable energy projects and called for more debate on the East African country’s plans to venture into nuclear-powered energy initiatives.
Dr. Adnan Amin, the Director-General of the UN’s International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), hailed Kenya’s efforts to harvest wind and solar power and the investment of resources to generate electricity from geothermal sources.
Kenya is planning to build a wind-power transmission line, running from Lake Turkana, the venue of what would be Africa’s largest wind-power project, to deliver the energy to the coastal region.
"The opening of wind power transmission line will open a new corridor from the coast to northern Kenya," Amin told journalists on Tuesday during a news conference at the Global Environment Ministers Forum, Jan. 20-22.
Kenyan officials hope the Lake Turkana wind power project, expected to inject some 300 megawatts of electric power when complete, will start production of an initial 50 MW in 2013
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