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The donated PPE materials are FFP2 and surgical masks, plastic face shields, hand sanitiser and individual bottled water. It was handed over by the company to the regional government of Uasin Gishu County at an event presided by the Governor His Excellency Jackson Mandago and attended by the county’s most prominent authorities.
The donation was made by ALTEN Africa with the support of the NGOs CESAL and AVSI Kenya Foundation in the logistics and distribution of materials.
The action is an example of ALTEN Energías Renovables’ corporate policy of Social Investment to assist the population of the regions where the company operates.
ALTEN Africa is building a photovoltaic plant called Kesses 1, on the Eldoret plateau in Kenya, in Uasin Gishu County, one of the most populated in the country.
The 55MWp plant has a 40 MWac capacity and will account for 2% of the country’s entire installed capacity. Its commissioning has been delayed because of the pandemic and is now scheduled for the second quarter of 2021.
Annual production is estimated at 123.6 GWh/year, enough to meet the electricity needs of 824,000 Kenyans and avoid 33.99 metric tonnes of carbon emissions into the atmosphere every year.
The Kesses 1 photovoltaic plant will be ALTEN Africa’s first utility scale project in Kenya and one of the largest photovoltaic solar plants in east Africa.

Eldoret, Kenya 18th June 2020.- The international company ALTEN Africa, an independent solar power producer using PV technology, has made a donation to the government of the Kenyan County of Uasin Gishu, consisting of a shipment of high-protection and surgical masks, plastic face shields, hand sanitiser and individually bottled water  worth 1 million Kenyan shillings [...]

ALTEN Energías Renovables has tackled significant challenges in the past, but we have never lived through anything like the pandemic caused by COVID-19.

Amidst global uncertainty, the priority for ALTEN Energías Renovables is to ensure the safety and health of all the professionals working with us, and to send a message of confidence and reassurance to our customers, suppliers, employees, partners and investors in all the countries in which we have a presence.

We are following very closely the decisions and guidance being given by the authorities in each country, and have put in place the technical and organizational resources necessary to guarantee that all our personnel continue working at full capacity, in an environment that is safe against this pandemic, to ensure the continuity of our projects throughout the world.

Our contingency plan works to guarantee our activity in the event of isolation and to contribute responsibly to controlling an epidemic in which each and every one of us plays an important part. For this reason:

In agreement with our suppliers, we have cut as far as possible the number of personnel present in the construction and operations of our photovoltaic plants, trying, as we always do, to employ local staff to avoid journeys from other regions.
We have closed our offices in the Netherlands, Spain, Mexico, Namibia and Kenya, rolling out teleworking for all administrative, technical and sales staff, preventing the need for travel in order to minimize their exposure to the risk of contagion.
We are carrying out control, monitoring and analysis in real time of our premises using online tools.
We give all our staff daily updates on the rules they must respect and conduct personal follow ups of those [...]

The Dutch company will sponsor the event, together with some of Kenya’s biggest firms, and other international companies including Stanbic Bank, Paramount Bank, Credit Group, Standard Group, Stabex International and Coca Cola.

By sponsoring this event, organised by the government of the state of Uasin on 21st April, ALTEN Africa is showing its commitment to the local population.

ALTEN Africa has recently begun construction work on a 40MWac photovoltaic plant in the municipality of Eldoret in the state of Uasin Gishu, which will represent 2% of the country’s installed capacity.

The new photovoltaic plant will produce an estimated total of 123.6 GWh / year.

It will be ALTEN Africa’s first utility scale project in Kenya and one of the largest solar power stations in East Africa

Madrid | Spain – Nairobi | Kenya, 21st April, 2019.- ALTEN Africa will sponsor the second edition of Eldoret City Marathon organized in Kenya by the Government of the state of Uasin Gishu, in the municipality of Eldoret. The race is 42,195Km, as well as a 5 km Corporate Fun Run, and will take place on 21st April, under the slogan “Promoting sport tourism & climate action”.

The Dutch company will sponsor the event, together with some of Kenya’s biggest firms, and other international companies including Stanbic Bank, Paramount Bank, Credit Group, Standard Group, Stabex International and Coca Cola.
By sponsoring this event, organised by the government of the state of Uasin on 21st April, ALTEN Africa is showing its commitment to the local population of the municipality of Eldoret where it has begun construction on a 40MWac photovoltaic plant. It will account for 2% of the installed capacity of a country with 45 million inhabitants which in recent years has become [...]

The plant, located in the state of Uasin Gishu, in the municipality of Eldoret, will have 40MWac installed capacity, accounting for 2% of the country’s total capacity.

The new photovoltaic plant will produce an estimated total of 123.6 GWh / year

ALTEN Africa has already informed the country incumbent, Kenya Power and Lighting Co | KPLC of its choice of the French company Voltalia to carry out the construction and operation & maintenance service on the plant.

Voltalia will start construction by December 2018.

Nairobi | Kenya December 13th , 2018.-ALTEN Energías Renovables has confirmed its choice of the French company Voltalia to carry out EPC and O&M service on its new PV solar power plant in Kenya. The new plant, located in the state of Uasin Gishu, in the municipality of Eldoret, the fifth largest city by population in Kenya, will produce 40MWac of power, accounting for 2% of the installed capacity in this country of 45 million inhabitants. Kenya has become East Africa’s main economic driver in recent years.

With a presence in over 18 countries and considerable experience in development, financing, EPC and Operation & Maintenance in renewable projects, Voltalia will start construction on this plant by December. This solar project is to be built on a land area of 100 hectares and will have over 161,000 monocrystalline panels set into solar single-axis trackers.

Once it goes into commercial operation, scheduled for March 2020, approximately 123.6GWh of clean electricity will be injected every year into the electric network, enough to meet the annual energy consumption needs of over 824,000 Kenyans. Thus, the plant will avoid the emission into the atmosphere of 33.88 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent every year of the [...]