Staff, Africa Sustainability Hub

Kenya wind power

A Different Wind of Change – Harnessing Africa’s Largest Wind Project for Climate Action

After commencing only in 2015, the Lake Turkana Wind Power Project (LTWP) in Kenya has rapidly become the largest such initiative in Africa, and Kenya’s single largest investment in the country’s history. It began generating electricity in 2018 and was fully inaugurated in 2019. For that reason, its lessons are being scrutinised for the technology’s wider regional potential.

February 13, 2020