Geothermal Development Company (GDC) has announced plans to add 49 megawatts of geothermal power to the national grid from Menengai Crater after an 11-year wait.
The company began drilling the first well on the floor of the crater to tap geothermal energy in February 2011.
Since it began its operation, not a single watt had been produced from the wells that it says have potential of generating 1,600MW of clean energy.
The project was initially set to inject 400 megawatts to the national grid by 2014 and 800 megawatts by 2016 when completed.
John Lagat, the GDC regional manager for North Rift says there is an Independent Power Producer already on-site to convert the steam to electricity and feed it to the national grid.
In April last year, the company received $692,000 from New Zealand to strengthen its technical and managerial capacities in geothermal steam operations at the Menengai Geothermal Field.
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