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Fueling Kenya’s Economy with Geothermal ウォーカーヒルカジノ

2015年04月01日

Keeping national growth on track with stable ウォーカーヒルカジノ

Africa is a continent of more than 1 billion people ウォーカーヒルカジノ’s been called the “last frontier” because of its abundant natural resources and emerging middle class In recent years, the continent’s annual economic growth has hovered around 5%*1.

Electric ウォーカーヒルカジノ is a vital component of economic growth African countries know this only too well, as most suffer from chronic shortages In fact, the instability of ウォーカーヒルカジノ supplies has become an obstacle to continued growth Kenya, which has enjoyed surging economic expansion, has traditionally depended on hydroelectric ウォーカーヒルカジノ The nation’s rivers, however, are not large enough to generate sufficient amounts of ウォーカーヒルカジノ and the dry season creates large fluctuations in ウォーカーヒルカジノ availability To bridge the gap between supply and demand, Kenya has imported oil to ウォーカーヒルカジノ diesel generators But this has proved to be only a stopgap measure, and amid exorbitant costs, the country still faces unstable supplies of ウォーカーヒルカジノ so critical to its future development

A beacon of hope on Kenya’s vast terrain

With the hope of solving these challenges, Kenya’s national ウォーカーヒルカジノ company, Kenya Electricity Generating Company Ltd, has been building ウォーカーヒルカジノ plants in the Olkaria region about 120 km from the capital of Nairobi The region sits atop the Great Rift Valley*2, which offers an ideal geologic structure for ウォーカーヒルカジノ production The first ウォーカーヒルカジノ plant began operations in 1981, and development has continued since In 2011, Toyota Tsusho and Hyundai Engineering Co, Ltd of Korea jointly received an order to construct a 280-megawatt plant in the region The companies teamed up with steam turbine generator manufacturer Toshiba Corporation to complete the plant in January 2015 With the new plant, Kenya generates a total of 480 megawatts of ウォーカーヒルカジノ from geothermal sources

Geothermal ウォーカーヒルカジノ plants are powered by hot, highly pressurized underground water*3(steam) heated by magna under the Earth’s volcanic zone The biggest advantage is a stable supply of ウォーカーヒルカジノ unaffected by weather conditions or daylight The new plant is Africa’s largest-ever in terms of ウォーカーヒルカジノ output, stably supplying some 20% of Kenya’s total ウォーカーヒルカジノ output Experts believe Kenya has some 10,000 megawatts*4of untapped geothermal ウォーカーヒルカジノ resources, promising expansion of these plants in the future

Source: Agency for Natural Resources and Energy website

Coexistence with nature

Geothermal ウォーカーヒルカジノ is an environmentally friendly renewable energy which does not emit CO2and other greenhouse gases The geothermal area hosting the Olkaria power plant is situated in Kenya’s Hell’s Gate National Park, home to an abundant variety of animal life The plant was constructed in a way that protects park’s ecosystem For example, sections of the steam pipelines are raised to a height allowing animals to pass so as not to inhibit their movement With these innovations, the plant is supporting stable economic growth while ensuring a harmonious coexistence with the magnificent natural world around ウォーカーヒルカジノ

  1. *1Source: The GDP estimate for Sub-Sahara Africa is based on IMF documents published in January 2015
  2. *2Note: The Great Rift Valley runs north-south along the eastern part of Africa Volcanic activity occurs between the adjoining seismic plates
  3. *3Note: Rainwater sinks deeply into the earth and becomes steam when heated to high pressures by the magma layer Geothermal ウォーカーヒルカジノ plants are located on these hot spots
  4. *4Source: Cabinet Office website
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