Tropical Power Energy Group has built and is commissioning the first grid-connect biogas plant in Africa, in Naivasha Kenya. The 2.2 MW Gorge Farm AD Plant will be selling electricity into the local grid and to Gorge Farm.
This facility utilises local organic crop waste as feedstock for an innovative two-stage AD plant that is consistently up to 30% more efficient than conventional single-stage plants. The biogas is used in gas engines to produce electricity and heat.
Johnnie McMillan, Managing Director, Tropical Power says, “The Gorge Farm AD Plant is a pioneering power project for Kenya. Distributed power projects are vital to Kenya’s energy security, reliability and efficiency, by generating electricity close to the point of use. Through biogas and solar, we want to displace expensive and imported generation fuels – like diesel and heavy fuel oil – from Kenya’s distributed power mix. The Gorge Farm AD Plant is physical proof that locally-produced feedstock can be used to generate clean and cost effective distributed power for all Kenyans.”
