Kenya: First grid connected anaerobic digester starts up


Issue 294 - 13 Feb 2015 | 1 minute read

Tropical Power Energy Group has built and commissioned what it says is Africa’s first grid connected biogas facility fed by gas from an anaerobic digestor plant. The Gorge Farm facility has installed capacity of 2.2MW which it will supply to the grid by March 2015 – subject to ratification of the power purchase agreement by the Energy Regulatory Commission – and to the farm. The project is owned and managed by developer Biojoule Kenya. The plant uses crop waste to feed a two-stage anaerobic digester which uses microorganisms to feed on the waste and produce biogas to feed gas turbines.

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