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A Fair Wind Over Lake Turnkana Lake Turkana Wind Power ( LTWP ), after nine long years of negotiation and prepartiion , is now an active project that will be delivering 300 megawatts of power to the Kenyan grid by the end of 2016 .
A barren moonscape pitted with volcanic craters , arid and inhospitable , and populated by warring tribes people . That is one view of northern
Kenya , and in a sense it is true : but a dualistic world view that only sees ‘ challenges ’ misses the point entirely . The counties of Turkana and Marsabit have extraordinary qualities . Among these is their wildlife , for example it was the prospect of catching sixfoot Nile perch weighing nearly 390 stone that attracted entrepreneur Willem Dolleman to the shores of Lake Turkana in the late 1980s . His main problem was the relentless wind that would take control of his boat – no tent that he could obtain could withstand the force of those winds , and he often had to give in and sleep in his car .
The potential of harnessing those forces for electricity generation was not lost on Dolleman and his friend Carlo van Wageningen , but at that time wind power was still an embryonic technology , and the low cost of oil put it out of contention . Wind power development required subsidies , and none would be forthcoming in Africa . It was not until 2005 , when oil prices rose above £ 50 per barrel for the first time , that they , together with Chris Staubo decided it was time to take another look . The ‘ founding fathers ’ of LTWP called up Harry Wassenaar and Kasper Paardekooper
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