Africa's First Grid-Linked Biogas Plant, Tropical Power Kenya, Starts Operations

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Tropical Power Kenya Ltd. has started producing power at Africa's first biogas plant connected to the national grid, Managing Director Johnnie McMillan said Aug. 24. The company expects to finalize an agreement within weeks to sell the electricity for 10 cents a kilowatt hour to Kenya Power Ltd., the country's sole electricity distributor, McMillan said in an interview at the project in Naivasha, 77 kilometers (48 miles) north of the capital, Nairobi. That is about a quarter of the cost of diesel-fired generation. The 2.2-megawatt plant will be fed 50,000 metric tons of plant waste a year sourced from VegPro Group, East Africa's biggest exporter of vegetables to the U.K. Veg- Pro will be given power to run its own Naivasha farm and use some of the residual waste to make organic fertilizer, said McMillan.