Toyota awarded contract for Menengai geothermal power plant project

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Toyota awarded contract for Menengai geothermal power plant project

Toyota Tsusho Corporation has been awarded contract by British independent power producer (IPP) Globeleq to build the Menengai geothermal power plant project in Kenya.

The firm has been tasked to execute the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for the project which aims to have an installed capacity of 35 MWe. The US $108m steam plant project is being supported by both the Kenyan and British authorities.

The Menengai geothermal project is also supported by the African Development Bank (AfDB), the Trade and Development Bank of Eastern and Southern Africa (TDB) and Finnfund, a Finnish investor. These financial institutions have provided loans totalling US $72M to Globeleq. IPP plans to start work on its steam plant in the first quarter of 2023.

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Menengai geothermal power plant

Toyota Tsusho has contracted the services of its compatriot Fuji Electric, which also equipped the new unit at the Olkaria I geothermal power plant for Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen). Fuji will install the steam turbine and generator at the Menengai plant.

Globeleq, which will operate and maintain the plant once it is commissioned in 2025, will purchase the steam from Kenya’s state-owned Geothermal Development Company (GDC), which has already drilled several production wells at the project site. The geothermal plant will feed its output of 35 MWe into the national electricity grid under a 25-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Kenya Power, the state-owned company that transmits and distributes electricity in Kenya.

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