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RE TRENDS EAST AFRICA Tracking regional renewable energy developments Quarter 1, 2015 Opening Thoughts Welcome to ASD’s first newsletter of 2015 (and the 5th of our series!). This quarter we focus on wind in East Africa. The Aeolus Kinangop and Turkana Wind projects have both been in the news recently. Actual construction of both projects appears to be on-going. At the same time, Ethiopia has quietly taken the lead in East African wind installations, completing over 170MW of wind projects in the last 18 months. Read below. In this issue, we also have a look at geothermal numbers, what happened to small-scale off-grid wind in the region, and we feature our usual tweet summary of interesting renewable developments. We welcome comments and criticism of our articles and content. Happy reading. ASD fielded 13 marathoners at this year’s Beyond Zero Campaign Marathon. Two completed 21km, majority did 10km and others 2km. ASD supports the Mark Hankins initiative as we look forward to participate again next year. Energy Numbers: Eastern Africa looking to geothermal to diversify its generation mix