Kenyan power generating firm, Iberafrica, plans to buy 320,000 tonnes of heavy fuel oil for its 110 megawatt (MW) power plant in the capital for use over the next 24 months, it said on Thursday.
Several parts of East Africa’s largest economy – which relies on hydro power for the lion’s share of its electricity – are experiencing severe drought, which could possibly lead to the use of diesel to generate power, as had happened in the past.
Meteorologists said late last year that rainfall may be depressed in the first half of 2011.
