Member of the Month – November 2015: Green Energy Geothermal
Green Energy Geothermal provides turn-key wellhead geothermal power plants in sizes ranging from 3.2 to 6.4 MW per unit to the Kenyan market. The company’s solution was developed to address the long lead time in traditional deployment of geothermal power plants that takes many years from project start to power online and requires large investments to complete.Green Energy Geothermal and Kenya Electricity Generating Company Limited (KenGen) connected the last of additional five plants to the national power grid in Kenya. GEG has now built a total of 10 geothermal wellhead power plants with a total installed capacity of 55 MW gross.This package 2 of the contract with KenGen includes five geothermal wellhead plants with a capacity of 5 MW each, or 25 MW in power generation capacity in total. The plants were brought online one by one starting with the first one in January 2015 and the last one in May 2015. Package 1 included the installation of four 6.4 MW wellhead plants that have now been operating since 2013/ 2014.GEG also installed the transformer sub-station to connect the plants to the national power grid for KenGen.Wellhead plants of GEG at Olkaria, Kenya (source: GEG/ Lydur Skulason)“This achievement is another milestone for Green Energy Geothermal, our team on site and our engineering group. From our pilot plant to the last 5 MW plant that went online last week, we have proven our concept and capabilities to deliver geothermal wellhead power plants and help our customers to bring power online faster. This helps our customers to create revenue from operations much earlier than in conventional large scale developments. We continue our path with the development of 5 additional plants for KenGen and are in negotiations for additional projects in Africa and Asia.” says Terje Laugerud, CEO of Green Energy Geothermal.KenGen has announced that it plans to continue the deployment of geothermal wellhead plants to help speed up development of its ambitious geothermal development program.
Writer: Arsene Frank Burakeye