Sh153bn debt forces Turkana wind power line builder into bankruptcy

Cabinet secretary Charles Keter. FILE PHOTO | NMG

Spanish infrastructure group Isolux Corsán, the contractor building the Lake Turkana Wind power transmission line, has filed for bankruptcy over a Sh153.6 billion debt throwing into doubt timely completion of the project.

The largest wind farm in sub-Saharan Africa meant to add 300-megawatt of reliable, low cost wind energy to the national grid should have been launched in June were it not for a lack of transmission lines.

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