The Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) has just issued a call for expressions of interest to modernize the Olkaria geothermal power plant and thereby increase the country’s electricity production. The project mainly includes 1) upgrading units 1 and 2 of the Olkaria IV plant, with the aim of increasing the capacity from 75 MW currently to 85 MW, 2) improving the performance of units 4 and 5 of the Olkaria I power station and 3) the supply and installation of the electrical control system for the Olkaria IV power station. This project comes at a time when KenGen launched a call for tenders at the start of the year for the construction of a new Olkaria-Naivasha plant, with a capacity of 140 MW, which will be built as part of a public partnership. private.