The collaboration will use GreenLoop know-how to do an indication of one in every of KenGen’s wells within the Olkaria area which has a excessive temperature and low permeability. This collaboration underscores each corporations’ dedication to utilizing GreenFire Vitality’s closed-loop know-how to speed up geothermal vitality within the area.
KenGen is the first provider of electrical energy in Kenya with a market share of greater than 60% with 1,904MW of technology capability.
The corporate provides as much as 80% of electrical energy in Kenya with 86% coming from renewable sources.1 KenGen at the moment generates 799MW from geothermal which is 85% of the nation’s geothermal put in capability and goals to provide over 50% of its energy from geothermal vitality by 2030.2
GreenFire Vitality has developed a flexible, closed-loop Superior Geothermal System (AGS) referred to as GreenLoop. GreenLoop can economically entry the whole spectrum of geothermal sources that standard geothermal know-how can not.
The know-how permits new and current operators and builders to retrofit current wells, to develop current fields with new wells, and to develop new geothermal sources rapidly and economically.
“The partnership between KenGen and GreenFire Vitality will bolster our 100% transition to renewable vitality by 2030 via the deployment of extra geothermal vitality in Kenya’s nationwide grid. The GreenLoop know-how will allow us to generate extra clear and renewable electrical energy from geothermal,” mentioned Eng Peter Njenga, KenGen, Managing Director and CEO.
“GreenFire Vitality is honored to be working with KenGen, one of many largest producers of geothermal vitality on the earth. Our patented GreenFire’s GreenLoop™ know-how has the distinctive functionality to make wells with low permeability rapidly scale-up geothermal energy technology,” mentioned Steven Brown, VP Mission Improvement, GreenFire Vitality. “We see our know-how as one of many driving forces to assist Kenya meet its objective of 100% clear vitality by 2030.”