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Kenya KTDA Small Scale Solar and Battery Options Feasibility Study
Sub-Saharan Africa
October 22, 2020K&M was engaged by the Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) to assess the feasibility of small (1 MW) solar PV power plants with battery storage options for thirty tea processing factories across Kenya. K&M’s scope of work includes demand analysis based on hourly load profiles of the tea factories, technical and conceptual designs for solar PV, storage, diesel, and hybrid systems, regulatory analysis, and financial analysis. K&M’s activities included creating and analyzing financial models, including demand assessment based on factory load profiles and analysis of power supply options (solar PV, batteries, diesel, and hybrid), EPC procurement, and regulatory analysis.