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- Transmission Line80,968
- Power Plant32,429
- Substation / Converter7,614
- Oil & Gas Field7,055
- Coal / Uranium Mine5,382
- Pipeline4,951
- Cement Plant3,513
- Data Centre3,283
- Iron & Steel Plant1,293
- LNG Terminal1,198
- Grid Storage965
- Iron Ore Mine949
- Chemical Plant868
- Interconnector704
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- Refinery279
- Storage / Tank Farm38
- Oil / Commodity Contract19
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- Carbon Capture (CCS)16
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Power Plant
Olkaria 5 geothermal power plant
15th-largest power plant in Kenya of 30 · top 65% worldwide (#19,193 of 29,849)
- Operator
- Kenya Electricity Generating Company
- Owner
- Kenya Electricity Generating Company PLC
- Status
- operating
- Capacity
- 164 MW
- Fuel
- geothermal
- Commissioned
- 2019
Comparable power plants · Kenya · 30 ranked
- #1Tana River nuclear power plant4.0 GW · nuclear
- #13Kiambere hydroelectric plant168 MW · hydro
- #14Kaishan Olkaria geothermal power plant165 MW · geothermal
- #15Olkaria 5 geothermal power plant164 MW · geothermal
- #16Olkaria 3 geothermal power plant147 MW · geothermal
- #17Akiira One geothermal power plant140 MW · geothermal
Grid connection · within 50 km
- Nearest substation
- Suswa Substation
- Its voltage
- 500 kV
- Distance
- 18 km
- Strongest line nearby
- 500 kV HVDC
- Substations in range
- 1
Mapped grid infrastructure from OpenStreetMap, whose coverage is excellent in some regions and sparse in others. Nothing shown here means nothing is mappednearby — not that the site is unconnected. Lines are matched on a segment’s midpoint, so a corridor passing directly overhead can be missed; this under-reports rather than invents.
Co-located infrastructure · within 25 km
- EcoCloud-G42 Mega Data Center geothermal power plant962 m · Power Plant · 100 MW · geothermal
- Kaishan Olkaria geothermal power plant1.3 km · Power Plant · 165 MW · geothermal
- Akiira One geothermal power plant1.4 km · Power Plant · 140 MW · geothermal
- Suswa Substation18 km · Substation / Converter
- HVDC Kenya-Ethiopia18 km · Transmission Line
- 400 kV line18 km · Transmission Line
- HVDC Suswa Electrode Line20 km · Transmission Line
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SOURCE: Global Energy Monitor · Global Integrated Power (CC BY 4.0)