Vegpro Company in collaboration with British investors has launched the biggest biogas power plant in Africa in Naivasha Sub County.
The biogas plant cost the two companies Sh 595 million. The 2.2 MW plant will be able to supply electricity directly to more than 10,000 homes.
Speaking to the press on Wednesday, Vegpro Company Managing Director Johnnie McMillan said that the plant will use approximately 50,000 tonnes of vegetable residue per annum.
He said, "The vegetable residue will produce the methane gas, which will then be used to run the two engines that will be producing the power.”
“This is the first biogas plant in the whole of Africa. We will go ahead and sell half of the power that we will be producing to Kenya Power and the remaining power will be sold to the neighbouring farms and homes," added McMillan.
He added that the plant expects to produce the liquid and also the solid fertilisers from the biogas plant.
"The fertilisers will be supplied to all the farms around that produces the baby corn. We are expecting to be getting more than 35,000 tonnes of both the solid and the liquid fertilisers per annum," said McMillan.