KenGen, Kenya’s leading power producer and the Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) recently reached a deal to put up the country’s first waste-to-energy utility scale power plant in the city.
The project is expected to convert 2,500 tonnes of waste to electricity daily at the city’s dumpsite, Dandora.
Embracing this waste recycling innovation is definitely a strategic move by KenGen, given that there are just 1,700 thermal waste-to-energy (WtE) plants worldwide, with over 80 percent of them located in developed countries. Currently only four are in Africa.
The project stands to benefit not only KenGen’s shareholders, but also the community surrounding the overflowing landfill, which has over the years been an environmental menace.
Waste dumped at Dandora. The rich in Kenya can invest in sanitation projects to help the poor. File KenGen #ticker:KEGN, Kenya’s leading power producer and the Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) recently reached a deal to put up the country’s first waste-to-energy utility scale power plant in the city.
The project is expected to convert 2,500 tonnes of waste to electricity daily at the city’s dumpsite, Dandora.
Embracing this waste recycling innovation is definitely a strategic move by KenGen, given that there are just 1,700 thermal waste-to-energy (WtE) plants worldwide, with over 80 percent of them located in developed countries. Currently only four are in Africa.
The project stands to benefit not only KenGen’s shareholders, but also the community surrounding the overflowing landfill, which has over the years been an environmental menace.
The Dandora dumpsite is more than three times full, holding over 1.8 million tonnes of solid waste against a capacity of 500,000 tonnes. In excess of 2,500 tonnes of garbage continues to find its way to the site daily.
Through the investment, the power producer is moving to create both economic value by diversifying its power generation basket and shared value for the society as part of the firm’s sustainability agenda.
Businesses are a potentially powerful force for positive change. Meeting society’s pressing challenges and needs should, therefore, be at the heart of their purpose and operations.To this end, more enterprises must strive to adopt sustainability and be on the lookout for low-hanging fruits for growth and longevity. Tapping into the circular economy as KenGen has, for instance, presents an ocean of opportunities for sustainable enterprises.The circular economy is an industrial model that is restorative or regenerative by design and intent: products, components, and materials are kept at their highest value at […]
