generating company trading name kengen type public company traded as kn kegn industry electric power founded 1 february 1954 ; 62 years ago 1954 02 01 headquarters nairobi kenya area served kenya key people eng . albert mugo ceo joshua choge chairman revenue kes 17.72 billion june 30 2013 net income kes 5.27 billion june 30 2013 total assets kes 188.7 billion june 30 2013 total equity kes 74.13 june 30 2013 number of employees 2 063 june 30 2013 1 website kengen not to be confused with the associated kenya power and lighting company . kenya electricity generating company or simply kengen is a company the largest power producing company in kenya producing about 72 % 1 of the electricity consumed in the country . contents 1 overview 2 history 3 ownership 4 list of power stations and installed capacity 4.1 current capacity 4.1.1 thermal 4.1.2 hydroelectric 4.1.3 geothermal 4.1.4 wind 4.2 future projects 4.2.1 geothermal 4.2.2 wind 4.2.3 thermal 4.2.4 hydroelectric 5 lists 6 references overview edit kengen relies on various sources to generate electricity ranging from hydro geothermal thermal and wind . hydro is the leading source with an installed capacity of 0.821 gw which is 52.3 percent of the company s installed capacity . 2 the company owns 14 hydropower plants with a combined capacity of 820 mw five thermal power plants of 256 mw five geothermal power plants of 493 mw and one wind power plant of 5.1 mw resulting a total installed capacity of 1 5695 gw . 2 presently kengen owns four geothermal power stations namely olkaria i and olkaria ii olkaria i unit 4 and 5 and olkaria iv . the power stations are within the great rift valley adjacent to the famous hell s gate national park and also bordering lake naivasha . history edit the company was founded on february 1 1954 as kenya power company kpc and was commissioned to construct the transmission line between nairobi and tororo in uganda this was to transmit power generated at the owen falls dam to kenya . kpc was as well tasked to develop electricity generating facilities in the country . kpc was managed by the kenya power and lighting company under a management contract . in january 1997 the management of kpc was formally separated from kenya power as a direct result of reforms being under taken in the energy sector and the entire economy . subsequently on january 19 1998 the company changed its name from kenya power company to kenya electricity generating company . the trading name kengen was also adopted at this point . in 2006 kengen was listed on the nairobi securities exchange after the government of kenya sold 30 % of its stake in the company through a successful initial public offer that received over 280 000 applications . ownership edit the stock of kenya electricity generating company is listed on the nse where it trades under the symbol kegn kenya electricity generating company stock ownership rank name of owner percentage ownership 1 government of kenya 70.00 2 others 30.00 total 100.00 list of power stations and installed capacity edit see also list of power stations in kenya current capacity edit the current capacity of kengen s power stations are ; thermal edit kipevu i diesel 73.5 mw kipevu iii diesel 120 mw embakasi gas turbine 60 mw lamu 2.9 mw garissa 6.7 mw hydroelectric edit gitaru hydro power plant 225 mw gogo hydro power plant 2 mw kamburu hydro power plant 94.2 mw kiambere hydro power plant 168 mw kinduruma hydro power plant 72 mw masinga hydro power plant 40 mw mesco hydro power plant 0.38 mw ndula hydro power plant 2.00 mw sagana hydro power plant 1.5 mw sondu miriu hydro power plant 60 mw sosiani hydro power plant 0.4 mw tana hydro power plant 20 mw turkwel hydro power plant 106 mw wanjii hydro power plant 7.4 mw geothermal edit olkaria i geothermal power plant 185 mw 3 olkaria ii geothermal power plant 105 mw olkaria iv 140 mw 3 eburru geothermal power plant 2.5 mw wellhead geothermal power plant 5.0 mw wind edit ngong hills wind power station phase i 5.1 mw ngong hills wind power station phase ii 20.4 mw future projects edit geothermal edit well head generation 70 mw completion year 2014 olkaria i unit 6 70 mw completion year 2015 16 eburru project 25 mw completion year 2016 olkaria v 560 mw completion year 2016 2017 olkaria vi 140 mw completion year 2016 17 olkaria vii 140 mw completion year 2018 olkaria viii 140 mw completion year 2018 wind edit meru wind power station phase i 100 mw completion year 2017 meru wind power station phase ii 300 mw completion year 2020 thermal edit kilifi coal plant 700mw completion year 2016 17 hydroelectric edit karura hydro power 90mw completion year 2018 lists edit list of countries by electricity exports list of countries by electricity imports list of countries by electricity production references edit a b kengen 2013 annual report pdf . kenya electricity generating company . june 30 2013 . retrieved october 14 2013 . a b image installed elec capacity nov2014.jpg 2339 1654 px . erc.go.ke . retrieved september 5 2015 . a b kengen . kengen.co.ke . retrieved september 5 2015 . v t e electricity delivery concepts availability factor baseload black start capacity factor demand factor demand management eroei fault grid storage intermittency load factor load following nameplate capacity peak demand power quality power flow study repowering spark spread variability sources nonrenewable coal fossil fuel power station natural gas petroleum nuclear oil shale renewable biomass biofuel geothermal hydro marine current osmotic thermal tidal wave solar wind technology ac power cogeneration combined cycle cooling tower induction generator micro chp microgeneration rankine cycle three phase electric power virtual power plant transmission and distribution blackout rolling blackout brownout demand response distributed generation dynamic demand electric power distribution electric power system electric power transmission electrical grid high voltage direct current load management pumped hydro power station power storage smart grid substation super grid transformer transmission system operator tso transmission tower utility pole protective devices arc fault circuit interrupter earth leakage circuit breaker residual current device gfi power system protection protective relay digital protective relay sulfur hexafluoride circuit breaker economics and policies carbon offset cost of electricity by source ecotax energy subsidies feed in tariff fossil fuel phase out net metering pigovian tax renewable energy certificates renewable energy payments renewable energy policy categories electric power distribution electricity economics power station technology portals energy renewable energy sustainable development retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title kenya electricity generating company & oldid 722061795 categories power companies of kenyagovernment owned companies of kenyaenergy companies established in 1954renewable resource companies established in 19541954 establishments in kenyacompanies listed on the nairobi stock exchange navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutschsvenska edit links this page was last modified on 25 may 2016 at 19 02 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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