Kenya: Contracts signed for backbone transmission line

Kenya Electricity Transmission Company Ltd (Ketraco) on 10 March signed two contracts with a combined value of Ksh8.14bn ($89m) for the 400kV Olkaria-Lessos-Kisumu transmission line. The line will evacuate power from the geothermal complex at Olkaria to western Kenya and serve as the backbone for regional interconnections with Uganda and Ethiopia, facilitating the anticipated export of 400MW to Kenya and 200MW to Rwanda from Ethiopia in 2017.