LTWP offloads 70% stake in wind farm


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Lake Turkana Wind Power is a 300 MW Kenya wind farm, with 50 MW grid-ready by June 2011, using Vestas turbines, a PPA at a 7.22 euro-cent feed-in tariff, and new equity partners.

 

The Situation Explained

Lake Turkana Wind Power is a 300 MW Kenyan wind project with Vestas turbines, a PPA, and phased grid connection.

  • 300 MW project; first 50 MW online by June 2011
  • Vestas to supply 360 wind turbines under exclusivity
  • PPA with Kenya's distributor at 7.22 euro cents per kWh
  • Planned shareholding: 51% Aldwych, 19% IDC, 30% KP&P
  • Financial close to set final valuation with lenders

 

Kenya's Lake Turkana Wind Power (LTWP) said it will offload a 70 percent stake in its wind energy project to South Africa's Industrial Development Corporation and London-based energy firm Aldwych International.

 

LTWP is building a 300 megawatt wind farm in Kenya, with the first 50 MW feeding into the national grid and related transmission, such as the Kenya transmission line project now underway by the end of June 2011.

"The structure we are looking at is that by the time we reach financial close and we move into construction phase, the shareholding of Lake Turkana Wind Power, amid deals like the TCW wind farm stake announced recently, will be 51 percent Aldwych, 19 percent for IDC South Africa and a 30 percent by KP&P, the original owners," said LTWP's Carlo Van Wageningen.

The LTWP chairman declined to say how much the stake sale would fetch, but said it had committed undertakings in the form of joint development agreements, amid Tanzania grid investments advancing in parallel.

"The final situation will be known only a few weeks before the expected financial close with the lenders. That is the time when the final valuations will be known," he told Reuters.

LTWP has an exclusivity deal with Denmark's Vestas Wind to supply 360 wind turbines, similar to the turbine deal in Canada announced recently, for the plant, which will be situated in the remote northwest.

It also has a power purchase agreement with Kenya's electricity distributor, as the region pursues a 400 MW power line across the region, at a feed-in tariff of 7.22 euro cents.

 

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