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Huge wind farm to bring change to Kenya
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2012/06/10/2003534940[font face=Serif][font size=5]Huge wind farm to bring change to Kenya[/font]
By Boris Bachorz / AFP, SOUTH HORR, KENYA
[font size=3]Tumbling down to the jade waters below, the rugged hills around Lake Turkana in northern Kenya are made of boulders and lava stone.
This is a remote, lunar landscape and the site of what will one day be Africa’s largest wind farm.
A consortium of European and African companies is preparing to put up 365 wind turbines in a 165km2 stretch of this desolate area inhabited only by semi-nomadic pastoralist herders.
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“In Turkana, the wind speed and also the consistency provides for optimum conditions for wind power — in fact they are better than North Sea offshore wind power,” said Achim Steiner, executive director of the Nairobi-based UN Environment Programme.
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By Boris Bachorz / AFP, SOUTH HORR, KENYA
[font size=3]Tumbling down to the jade waters below, the rugged hills around Lake Turkana in northern Kenya are made of boulders and lava stone.
This is a remote, lunar landscape and the site of what will one day be Africa’s largest wind farm.
A consortium of European and African companies is preparing to put up 365 wind turbines in a 165km2 stretch of this desolate area inhabited only by semi-nomadic pastoralist herders.
…
“In Turkana, the wind speed and also the consistency provides for optimum conditions for wind power — in fact they are better than North Sea offshore wind power,” said Achim Steiner, executive director of the Nairobi-based UN Environment Programme.
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