{"id":176679,"date":"2024-07-16T19:08:24","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T17:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-kengen-to-add-42-5mw-of-green-energy-at-seven-forks\/"},"modified":"2024-07-16T19:08:24","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T17:08:24","slug":"kenya-kengen-to-add-42-5mw-of-green-energy-at-seven-forks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-kengen-to-add-42-5mw-of-green-energy-at-seven-forks\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Kengen to Add 42.5mw of Green Energy At Seven Forks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) has announced plans to install a 42.5 megawatt (MW) solar power plant along the Seven Forks dams, where the company generates most of its hydroelectricity.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The project, which will be implemented in partnership with the French Development Agency (AFD) and is expected to last for two years and four months, seeks to scale up Kenya&#8217;s green energy deployment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The power producer assured that the project will provide additional capacity aimed at&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407160502.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) has announced plans to install a 42.5 megawatt (MW) solar power plant along the Seven Forks dams, where the company generates most of its hydroelectricity. The project, which will be implemented in partnership with the French Development Agency (AFD) and is expected to last for two years and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":176680,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[49054,8272,258,256,7424,49055,12626,36022,4688,430,257,254],"class_list":["post-176679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-42-5mw","tag-add","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-energy","tag-forks","tag-green","tag-kengen","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}