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US firm Cummins starts 12MW Baringo power production in October

The power plant will transform the Mathenge tree from a ‘noxious weed’ to ‘cash crop’ status. PHOTO | FILE

American engineering firm Cummins Inc has set October as the date to begin generating electricity from a toxic shrub popularly referred to as ‘Mathenge,’ after more than two years of false starts blamed on mechanical hitches.

The Columbus-based company said it is working to rectify the technical snags that have dogged the 12-megwatt Mathenge power plant in Marigat, Baringo County, which was due to begin feeding the grid in June 2014.

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