Kenya. The Lake Turkana Wind Power project, at Loiyangalani in Marsabit County, about 545 kilometres north of Nairobi, is Africa’s largest single wind farm: 365 turbines with a combined capacity of 310 megawatts, supplying roughly 15% of Kenya’s installed electricity capacity.
The site was chosen for a reason that matters more than the headline number. The project sits in the path of the Turkana jet, a persistent, predictable wind that blows through the channel between the highlands on either side of Lake Turkana. That consistency is what makes the farm unusually productive for a wind asset — and it’s why a remote corner of northern Kenya, far from the country’s main demand centres, made sense as the location for a project of this scale.
The deal behind it is just as instructive as the engineering. At roughly $700 million (about KSh 70 billion), Lake Turkana was the largest single private investment in Kenya’s history when it was built, put together by a consortium including KP&P Africa and Vestas alongside Danish, Finnish and Norwegian investment funds. Its power is sold to Kenya Power under a 20-year power purchase agreement — the kind of long, contracted revenue stream that separates a real energy asset from a press release about one.
A note on the superlative, because precision is the point: Egypt’s Gulf of Suez wind sites add up to more megawatts in total, but they are several separate projects. As one farm, Lake Turkana leads the continent, just ahead of Morocco’s 301 MW Tarfaya farm. It also fits Kenya’s broader push toward fully green electricity — a grid where wind, geothermal and hydro do the heavy lifting, and where the next big projects will be judged on whether they actually get financed, built and connected.
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