The Kindaruma Hydroelectric Power Station, also Kindaruma Dam is an
embankment dam with two
gravity dam sections on the
Tana River in Kenya. It straddles the border of
Embu and
Machakos counties in
Kenya
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. The primary purpose of the dam is
hydroelectric power generation and it supports a power station. It is Kenya's first post-independence hydroelectric power plant. It was commissioned in 1968 as part of the
Seven Forks Scheme. The power station is operated by
Kenya Electricity Generating Company
Kenya Electricity Generating Company PLC abbreviated to KenGen, is a government enterprise in the Republic of Kenya charged with the production of electricity for the country. KenGen is the largest electric power producer in Kenya, generating ...
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Between 2007 and 2013 the power station underwent a rehabilitation and upgrade which increased its installed capacity from 40 MW to 72 MW. In June 2012 a third
Kaplan turbine
The Kaplan turbine is a propeller-type water turbine which has adjustable blades. It was developed in 1913 by Austrian professor Viktor Kaplan, who combined automatically adjusted propeller blades with automatically adjusted wicket gates to ach ...
-generator, rated at 24 MW, was commissioned. In January and June 2013, the original two 20 MW Kaplan turbine-generators were upgraded to 24 MW each.
See also
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Gitaru Dam – upstream
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Kiambere Dam – downstream
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List of power stations in Kenya
The following page lists power stations in Kenya.
Geothermal
Hydroelectric
Fossil fuels: oil, coal, and gas
Wind
Solar
See also
* Energy in Kenya
* List of largest power stations in the world
* List of power stations in A ...
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List of hydropower stations in Africa
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References
{{Tana River (Kenya) dams
Energy infrastructure completed in 1968
Hydroelectric power stations in Kenya
Dams on the Tana River (Kenya)
Dams in Kenya
Dams completed in 1968
Machakos County
Embu County
Embankment dams
Gravity dams