Kenyan flower exporting company Oserian Development Company has launch its solar energy power plant with a content to generate 1 MW . integrate with the survive geothermal power , the firm will now produce sufficient renewable free energy for uptake by tenants and residents of the Two Lakes Industrial Park . unite , both plant have a electrical capacity of 3.5 MW .
Speaking when the company unveil the plant in Naivasha , Managing Director Neil Heilings said renewable energy was the way to go to reduce the price of big businessman , a big vault to Kenya ’s development . “ The initiative supports Kenya ’s Agenda 4 - providing cheaper renewable energy for industrial take - off ” , he said .
Neil Heilings and Lee Kinyanjui with solar industrial plant partners
The upshot was preside over by Nakuru County Governor Lee Kinyanjui . The Governor order his government will brook secret sector to steer growing in the region , expressing pridefulness that Nakuru County was home to the big geothermic plant in Africa , and 4th in the universe .
Lee Kinyanjui and Neil Heilings
The power industrial plant has been rise in partnership with Premier Solar , Solarise , Oloidien Engineering & Estate , and Dubai Carbon .
Oserian developed the 2.5 MW geothermal in 2003 and now it has shift on solar power , which mean the flower farm operate on two unripened vitality sources , relying 100 per cent on own generated vigor for business and residential use .
The solar plant comes a month after the firm was named the 2019 Renewable Energy Champion in the Kenya Association of Manufacturers Energy awards in March .
With the solar plant , Oserian has moved nearer to its 2020 Vision of being a carbon - spare surroundings . The firm acquaint geothermic powered jerk ( truck ) two twelvemonth ago that transportation flower from greenhouse to the pack house , a growth that has save about 300,000 litres of Rudolf Diesel lead to massive savings and a cleaner environment .
Premier Solar Managing theater director Mr Rupesh Hidocha say Kenya has a of course plentiful solar and wind imagination which should be rein for renewable energy propagation . The Dubai - based solar specialist business opened a Kenya subordinate two year ago , has laid 3,000 solar panels at Oserian , designed in such a path that at no one time will the panel be cover by shadow to maintain maximal exposure to sunlight throughout the day .
Patrick Huber , Managing Director , Solarise , which finance the project , said solar plants are a retentive - full term investment with a 25 - year lifespan . He urged business keen on pass solar to confabulate so as to get the BASIC powerful on the suitable technology to choose for their respective regions .
Keith Alisdair , Managing Diector , Oloidien Engineering and Estates , which took charge of all the applied science works , said it was a totally young ground for the party that has now developed the expertise to lie such plants as the technology takes root in Kenya .
A voice of Dubai Carbon Mr Thomas Bosse order Oserian has embrace Green Growth , a sideline of the United Nations Environment Programme that was offer advice to business organisation to take reward of nature to modernise instrument and mechanism through which they can manoeuver in a sustainable humankind .
In his closing remarks , Mr Heilings suppose Oserian was willing to portion out its experience in this journey to enable partners in developing renewable energy put their brains together for the welfare of all .
Innocent Onsarigo of the Kenya Association of Manufacturers recognized Oserian as a leading light in alternative sources of energy and a practising example of the association seeking for a 30 % revenue enhancement rebate on renewable free energy utilities , for reduction of costs .
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