{"id":18358,"date":"2022-11-21T07:00:17","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T06:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ecomnewsafrique.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=18358"},"modified":"2022-11-18T15:40:52","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T14:40:52","slug":"kenya-england-to-support-the-construction-of-a-dam-for-the-production-of-electricity-and-the-supply-of-water-for-400000-hectares-of-agricultural-land","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/ecomnewsafrique.com\/en\/2022\/11\/21\/kenya-england-to-support-the-construction-of-a-dam-for-the-production-of-electricity-and-the-supply-of-water-for-400000-hectares-of-agricultural-land\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: England to support the construction of a dam for the production of electricity and the supply of water for 400,000 hectares of agricultural land"},"content":"\n  \n    \n      \nBritish Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Kenyan President William Ruto have agreed to implement six climate change mitigation and adaptation projects in Kenya, for a total investment of nearly 500 billion Kenyan shillings ($4.1 billion), announced the British government in a press release published on Monday 7 November.\n\n    \n  \n\n\n  \n    \n      \nA sum of 425 billion shillings will be spent on the construction of a hydroelectric dam on the Tana River to support the production of 1 gigawatt of electricity and provide water to irrigate 400,000 hectares of agricultural land, it said. the same source specified, indicating that this agreement was concluded during a meeting between the two leaders at the 27th United Nations Climate Conference (COP27).\n\n    \n  \n\n\n  \n    \n      \nThe agreement also covers the development of a climate-resilient agricultural center in the Lake Victoria region, for an investment of 32 billion shillings.\n\n    \n  \n\n\n  \n    \n      \nSome 7.5 billion shillings will also be invested in a solar power plant project led by the energy group Globeleq, while 2.5 billion shillings will be devoted to the development of a geothermal power plant with a capacity of 35 megawatts.\n\n    \n  \n\n\n  \n    \n      \n5 billion shillings will support the ecological transformation of the center of Nairobi, by articulating it around a new railway station.\n\n    \n  \n\n\n  \n    \n      \nThe UK will also partner with Kenyan pension fund manager CPF Financial Services to launch a new Guarantee Fund, which is expected to mobilize 12 billion shillings of new finance to develop climate-resilient infrastructure in Kenya in over the next three years.\n\n    \n  \n\n","author":116,"featured_media":11141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[1017,492,745,1504],"location":[505,511],"class_list":["post-18358","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-agricultural","tag-electricity","tag-energy-2","tag-england","location-africa","location-kenya-en"],"short_url":"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3TLH6f1","have_related_news":"done","chapo":"The projects mainly concern the construction of a hydroelectric dam, the development of a geothermal power plant and the development of an agricultural center resilient to climate change.<br \/>\r\n","media":{"src":"https:\/\/ecomnewsafrique.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/03\/hydroelectrique-550x360.png","srcset":"https:\/\/ecomnewsafrique.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/03\/hydroelectrique-550x360.png 550w","sizes":"550px","alt":"hydroelectrique","width":550,"height":360,"ratio":0.59,"credit_photo":""},"media-news-header":{"src":"https:\/\/ecomnewsafrique.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/03\/hydroelectrique.png","srcset":"https:\/\/ecomnewsafrique.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/03\/hydroelectrique.png 1170w","sizes":"1170px","alt":"hydroelectrique","width":1170,"height":658,"ratio":0.59,"credit_photo":""},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.9.1 - 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