MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 21,
2015 - Google plans to make a major investment in the Lake Turkana Wind Power
Project in Northern Kenya, bringing 310 megawatts of clean energy onto Kenya’s
grid—enough to power more than two million households across the country.
“Lake Turkana will help bring much
needed capacity and stability to Kenya’s energy supply, reducing reliance on
fossil fuels and emergency diesel generation while providing some of the most
cost effective power in the country,” Google pointed out in an announcement
Tuesday.
Other investors include the Overseas
Private Investment Corporation, the U.S. government’s development finance
institution, and Vestas,
which is also supplying the turbines for the wind farm.
It will be the California company’s
second clean energy investment in Africa. In 2013 the internet giant invested
$12 million into the continent’s largest solar PV plant, located in South
Africa.
“As an investor in
both the largest solar photovoltaic (PV) and wind farm projects in Africa, we are as optimistic as ever about the potential for
these investments to accelerate progress toward a future of clean energy,” the
firm noted in a blog
post. “These
efforts not only make business sense, they can help accelerate the deployment
of renewable energy globally— including in emerging markets like Kenya, where
there is an opportunity to have a transformative impact on the energy grid.”
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