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Power Plant
Gitaru hydroelectric plant
9th-largest power plant in Kenya of 30 · top 52% worldwide (#15,260 of 29,849)
- Owner
- Kenya Electricity Generating Company PLC
- Status
- operating
- Capacity
- 225 MW
- Fuel
- hydro
- Commissioned
- 1978
Comparable power plants · Kenya · 30 ranked
- #1Tana River nuclear power plant4.0 GW · nuclear
- #7Menengai 3 geothermal power plant300 MW · geothermal
- #8Suswa geothermal power plant250 MW · geothermal
- #9Gitaru hydroelectric plant225 MW · hydro
- #10Olkaria 1 geothermal power plant223 MW · geothermal
- #11Kaptagat solar farm195 MW · solar
Co-located infrastructure · within 25 km
- Kiambere hydroelectric plant24 km · Power Plant · 168 MW · hydro
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SOURCE: Global Energy Monitor · Global Integrated Power (CC BY 4.0)