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Renewable Energy Ventures (K) Ltd. partners with EMPower's Lahmeyer International, Kfw, GEF, Carbon Africa Ltd. and KENGEN to carry out a nationwide study on large scale grid tied solar PV and CSP plants.

In March, we signed an MOU with Lahmeyer internation, the operational partner in the EMPower program that is funded in part by GEF and Kfw to analyse the potential for large scale grid tied solar projects in Kenya. The out come of this study will be a complete prefeasibility study and a PIM that will inform on the development of the project.

While the cost of solar PV has dropped significantly over the last few year, there has been no uptake of large scale solar energy in Kenya. A relatively low feed in tariff for solar energy in Kenya has also made the technology less attractive compared to wind and small hydro. 

We have therefore invited the Ministry of Energy and KPLC to accompany us on the study so that they will also have a much clearer perspective of the solar energy space, specifically, greater than 1MW plants that are grid tied.

 

Solar Lanterns initiative

"........... it should be a crime for us to subject our children to the fumes and pollution of kerosene lanterns as they do their homework......"

With Kenya's electrification rate at 18% according to KPLC, there are 32 million Kenyans that use among other sources, kerosene lanterns for their lighting needs. These lanterns are expensive, cause indoor air pollution and are a fire hazard. We believe that with solar lanterns being a mature and proven technology that is relatively cheaper than Kerosene over the life of the lanterns, that every household in Kenya should have a solar lantern. We have therefore set a goal of providing 1 million solar lanterns in Kenya alone to displace one million kerosene lanterns. To learn more about this initiative, please visit www.solanterns.com

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