A Chinese company and Kenya's state-owned power producer have secured a geothermal power project in Ethiopia. The announcement has been made by Kenya Electricity Generating Company PLC (KenGen) on February 25 saying that it together with Chinese oil engineering firm Kerui Group Co. Ltd. landed the contract to provide service to Ethiopia's state-run power producer Ethiopian Electric Power (EEP). Rebecca Miano further revealed that Kenya is Africa's number one geothermal energy producer and among top ten in the world. "The country has a geothermal installed capacity of 685MW with an estimated potential of 10,000 MW along the Rift Valley. "Currently we have some geothermal drilling rigs that are idle and now broken down and therefore the need to purchase new ones," Belay added.

Source: Ethiopian News February 26, 2019 13:07 UTC