Panorama Begins Work on Geothermal Project in Saint Lucia
The Panorama team, including Laurie Hietter and Susanne Heim, recently returned from their first round of fieldwork for a geothermal project in Saint Lucia, West Indies. Panorama is assisting the Government of Saint Lucia with stakeholder engagement, environmental baseline data collection, and preparing the Environmental and Social Impact Analysis for geothermal exploration wells. The project […]
The latest on KenGen: Laurie Hietter visits Kenya’s geothermal power plants
Laurie Hietter, Panorama Principal, attended the Kenya Electricity Generating Company’s (KenGen) Geothermal Board of Consultants meeting in Naivasha this March. The members of the Board toured the Olkaria geothermal field, the Eburru power plant, as well as their wellhead generators. KenGen has now added 280 MW of geothermal power to the national grid with Olkaria IV providing 140 […]
Increasing Geothermal Energy Generation in Kenya
Energy generation from geothermal plants owned by the Kenya Electricity Generating Company Limited (KenGen) is going strong. The 2010 expansion of the Olkaria II Geothermal Plant included construction of a third generator, increasing generation at the facility by 35 megawatts. The increase in generation contributes approximately 276 gigawatt-hours annually to Kenya’s national grid and reduces the […]
Geothermal Energy to Lower Electricity Cost in Kenya by 30 Percent
Adding Geothermal Energy to the National Grid in Kenya The Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) will reduce the costs of electricity by 30 percent with the recent addition of 140 megawatts of geothermal power to the national grid from 14 mobile geothermal generating wells at the Olkaria site in Naivasha. Panorama has been working closely with KenGen […]