Have been here severally and i am one happy kenyan that this project is finally operational.I saw guys working so hard and i thought this will not happen in the near future.
Hii nchi ni noma. Utapata huyu engineer hata hawezi afford Fielder na mama yake bado anaishi kwa nyasi. Such guys should be paid in dollars NOT tenderprenures who just hoover around government corridors to loot Billions!
such projects that display value for money in all aspects is what Kenya needs to achieve vision 2030 and to better lives. its such a magnificent infrastructure with no scrupulous transactions.kudos Kenya.
It's nice to see black Kenyans in charge. Sometimes when you watch news about Kenya you might think everything in Kenya is headed by white or Indian or Chinese people.
Great work from Jeff. Sometimes I think the media in this country feel its a taboo to report good things we do. Good milestones and achievements are pushed so far into news broadcasts or in middle pages because it doesn't sell. Kenyans have been condisioned to think their country is just failing. If a mganga says he made people eat grass it will be news headlines or if Raila visits Moi., or if Obado visits a hospital. Turkana wind project, one of the most efficient on earth, SGR first to double stack in Africa, largest BBC office outside UK e.t.c are not even mentioned
I am an engineer and we are doing all these stuff so kindly don't call us mtu wa mkono. The goverment is the one giving main contracts to foreigner but subs are purely locals
@@AliClay A colonized mind. Amka my friend the difference between the locals and your foreigners is confidence. That is a very smart man and team, you'd be surprised how little your worshipped foreigners do.
Sorry but let me be vain kidogo, biggest wind power project in Africa, tallest building in Africa(The Pinnacle).....na bado tuna wachapa riatha etc....Kenya tuko mbele!!!
I thought my teacher made PHYSICS hard..This engineer is making it even harder. I'm glued to only what Jeff says. I still don't understand how wind becomes electricity.
Wind actually does the work of rotating the turbines just as water rotates the turbines where they are connected to the generator which uses the turning motion of the shaft to rotate a rotor which has oppositely charge magnets and is surrounded by copper wire loops. Electromagnetic induction is created by the rotor spinning around the inside of the core, generating electricity.
Barns Kiugs Read my friend. Don't you know how to read? Become a friend of google. We live in an information age. You cannot blame anyone else but yourself.
I cannot agree more,leaders in that region are very apt in fighting development projects that are likely to contribute to national growth and that of the locals.
I don't care what anyone says but thank you China for actually getting things done. I rather pay 50% more and see it done than pay 40% more to some westerners and Europeans and see it delayed forever.
It's not hard when you understand the science of electricity . Wind power is much easier than Hydraulic . The Chinese are the leader on wind power now .
Is it possible to use this footage for a 2 minutes story for the Italian broadcasting company? or are there copyright restrictions? Thanks for your advice.
Just so we're clear, The Thika Road isn't a superhighway. Its just a a dual carriage highway. Tuache hypes. Hiyo in kuabisha wakenya. Look up superhighways and you'll be humbled.
True, but the power loss depends on distance and voltage level. That line is 400kV and is about 432km (268 miles). Transmission engineers generally start worrying about significant losses at about 643km (400miles) and above for 400kV lines. From experience I'd venture to say the losses on this line are less than 2%. Now if it was a 220kV line then the losses would be almost 4-5% which is unacceptable and above the approved limits
Irene Davo..are you insinuating this is a vanity project.i get taxed and when projects like this are completed I feel proud.. you don't care about Kenya,all you do is troll anything positive about Kenya and post your rhetoric(whether it's about those jiggers you always talking about,or now this about digging wells) .we are sorting our issues please keep your aid/love/sympathy or whatever it is you think you give Kenya...and why always on videos showing Kenyan progress
Am in roads and we’re suffering infiltration from the Chinese, Israeli(pick SBI) etc and would wish that kind of fight am seeing in roads (read matatu) extended here. Challenge, what are these guys doing on inadequate land compensation specifically. In Nyandarua?
If this area rivals European offshore wind farms, why use turbines that can't produce even a MW? They could have used 60 turbines. Why build 365? The penalty costs incurred on this project will hurt Kenyans for a long time to come. 300MW is maximum. 200MW is average. The Chinese contractors strung the HV line in 60 days. That means they were stringing on average 7km/day (of heavy conductor). Stop playing...
Daniel Njoroge The Chinese are still running the SGR? Tujihadhari sana na hao watu. Najua wanaiba madini na pembe za tembo na kifaru za Tsavo na kusafirisha kwao. Ni lazima tukae macho!
@@kiswahilikitukuzwe2547 if i build for you (and remember it is with my own money)................i must supervise it cause i don't want you to mismanage my hard earned capital,......... especially cause your media keeps portraying you in negative ways................ The Chinese send their own people to oversee operations, but the western countries don't need to, because they already have their recruited puppets (i.e politicians) this way you don't get to see their white face, in fact many of our leaders are Europeans in black skin. .........................Everyone wants to entrap Africa in Debt, but at least the Chinese entrapment is much softer & manageable............... This situation infuriates the west and they start preaching "debt trap" which our media sings along to, but they have been doing the same thing for hundred of years (slavery & colonization) and sometimes with no tangible progress for us.
It is time for the Kenyan engineers to step up the ladder and air their grievances to avoid further exploitation. The government and private sector view Kenyan engineers as second hand professionals. It is very strange that foreign engineers earn upto 1000% more than our own engineers,,
Equatorial regions have less sun since most of the days its either cloudy or rainy, its not economically viable to build a Solar station for a region that receives full sun for less than 150 days, but for this region you see in the video solar power is viable since this one is a desert.
HAMUNA HAYA NA AIBU MUKIONGELESHANA KINGEREZA IHALI NYINYI WAWILI LUGHA ILE MUNAELEWA VIZURI ZAIDI KUEXPLAIN VITU, NI KISWAHILI. SHAME ON YOU. KUMANINA ZENYU NYINYI. BE PROUD OF KISWAHILI.MWACHEKESHA KAMA NYANI. Otherwise mumefanya kazi nzuri sana ya umeme
you heard bad. The Chinese only did the transmission line after the spanish failed us. The windmills were from a european company and google has shares in it. And its not govt debt or project, its a private investment that built to get profit just like if you bought a matatu to make a profit.
Steve swakei It is mainly a Danish project and other Nordic countries. The Spanish company was initially contracted to do the transmission lines but they filed for bankruptcy before the Chinese won the bid to replace them.
+Kiswahili Kitukuzwe 254 china is the most populated country on earth. i feel they trick most poor countries into an overwhelming debts that they cannot repay, soon they'll start possessing these lands in pretense of their debt collection. look at malawi and Sri Lanka
@@steveswakei9600 Stop blaming china for anything, its kenyan politicians who sign the deals and go all the way to china to take loans so blame them not china. Secondly without china we wouldnt have thika road and all those highways they are building all over the country most of which kenyan companies can only dream of contructing and also the sgr. China is great and i believe if we are sober and know what we want as a country they can help us achieve it,the problem comes when gok inflates the projects and makes stupid deisions then start blaming others
We have the worst planners in KENYA . Why is the SGR not electrified ? If the same government knew that in the near future they would be producing such large amounts of kW in Turkana . 😭😭😭 I sometimes question those in power their strategic thinking & planning is disheartening. who constructs a diesel railway network and a mega wind power farm in the same economical season 🤨.
@JAMES MUGO i may agree with sm wn here, am not saying it never costed that, but we need accountability and transparency. Government cannot just commission projects and expect no questions, thats what civilized people do
@@franga7870 I get your point which is a valid one, but that's not my argument, all am asking is don't you think it's the prerogative of the Kenyan citizen to have all the info concerning mega projects courtesy of our government. Its tax payers money, which it should be transparent and accountable.
Congratulations to our own engineer Saipimae Lenkungwaani for the good work
Suddenly and silently it was done...and suddenly and silently it is working. Well done.
Ephabarus Njeru China will own Kenya soon!
@@irenedavo3768 Why because they constructed the lines?
@@andrewwaigwa1418 don't engage it it's a troll that never has anything positive to say
@@irenedavo3768 so blockheaded
Jeff siku hizi uko juu,this kind of stuff suits you best,classic.keep it going bro
Have been here severally and i am one happy kenyan that this project is finally operational.I saw guys working so hard and i thought this will not happen in the near future.
Hii nchi ni noma. Utapata huyu engineer hata hawezi afford Fielder na mama yake bado anaishi kwa nyasi. Such guys should be paid in dollars NOT tenderprenures who just hoover around government corridors to loot Billions!
Very true. That young man really understands his job.
Very true Tenderpreneurs eat a big chunk of the project huyu engineer utapata mashande ni 30K
Is that all u have observed?..empty mind
@@josephNdichu879 really, has it come to that?
@@josephNdichu879 Wee tuambie ume observe nini... Wacha kudandia story za wenyewe!
Awesome & great work Kenya!
Kenya needs to mass produce engineers just as China and India are doing.
Very impressive,go higher Kenya.
As someone in the industry, I am proud of my home country.
such projects that display value for money in all aspects is what Kenya needs to achieve vision 2030 and to better lives. its such a magnificent infrastructure with no scrupulous transactions.kudos Kenya.
@@irenedavo3768 si u can forgo a month without data and do something abt it
I like that boy. He really went to school. He knows his work.
It's nice to see black Kenyans in charge. Sometimes when you watch news about Kenya you might think everything in Kenya is headed by white or Indian or Chinese people.
I love this guy even though he had to struggle to break it down, so us ordinary people can understand the passion for his job still shine through.
Nothing complicated if you did basic physics…
Jeff doing what he does best..do such vids on SGR phase II and LAPSET
Frank Marshall. You said it! He does it effortlessly, his overall deliverance exceeds my expectations.
Would be nice to see him report on Jigger Victims! He could gent them help but does nothing!
Awesome...God bless all Engineers making the world a better place for the future..mbele iko sawa
nice to see young engineers doing what they love..good for ourselves sustainability
kudos Eng.saipimae ,great work.straight out of baragoi samburu kenya
Something 'Green' out of the Arid Loyangalani wind farms.
Am so proud of Eng.Joseph!!!!! Keep shinning our very own
Awesome story....well done KETRCO.
Great work from Jeff. Sometimes I think the media in this country feel its a taboo to report good things we do. Good milestones and achievements are pushed so far into news broadcasts or in middle pages because it doesn't sell. Kenyans have been condisioned to think their country is just failing. If a mganga says he made people eat grass it will be news headlines or if Raila visits Moi., or if Obado visits a hospital. Turkana wind project, one of the most efficient on earth, SGR first to double stack in Africa, largest BBC office outside UK e.t.c are not even mentioned
I second you. Our media aims to please western myths about Africa
Knowledgeable and young!!
I like it when I see Kenyans running projects, I hope the SGR follows suit
haha you only seeing ketraco which is only receiving and transmitting power generated by ltwp......ltwp is run by foreigners
Thats just the face the boardroom and profits are not kenyan. These guys do not even pay tax in Kenya.
@@deanking6105 yeah..these big comanies have capability bo finish that deficit,they dont pay anything thats why gok is here taxing us instead
China will own Kenya!
Instead of complaining si utupee option instead of mzungu .....mi ni nugu cna akili
Jeff trying hard to understand what the young guy is elaborating, demonstrating and explaining in his field terminologies 😂
Hawa engineers wanafa wakule poa...smart brains...Kenya should encourage youths by paying them well not only benefitting from their sweat.
I support you but these are watu wa mkono. All the hard work has been done by foreigners.
@@AliClay unajua apprenticeship.....ukijua maana utaita Kenyan mtu wa mkono
I am an engineer and we are doing all these stuff so kindly don't call us mtu wa mkono. The goverment is the one giving main contracts to foreigner but subs are purely locals
@@AliClay A colonized mind. Amka my friend the difference between the locals and your foreigners is confidence. That is a very smart man and team, you'd be surprised how little your worshipped foreigners do.
THESE YOUNG ENGINEER'S ARE UP THERE.....KUDOS
Game changer... Congratulations to the government for this mega project
It's private project, the only Govt Project here is the transmission line
The renewable energy the way forward.
when you put politics aside...
Would live to see such a project along the coastal strip ,the wind there is greater.
Happy to see a young engineer. Sio wale Menemethete teke theme.....
Menethetere
With No idea on engineering,i'll admit that Eng Saipimae Joseph Lengung'wani explains it with content and concept.. Great man,kudos Engineer.
Young intelligent Engineer
melvin lokiwial how will it help poor Kenyans like Jigger Victims?
@@irenedavo3768 solution ya jiggers ni what?hebu tell me
Sorry but let me be vain kidogo, biggest wind power project in Africa, tallest building in Africa(The Pinnacle).....na bado tuna wachapa riatha etc....Kenya tuko mbele!!!
Everything about Kenya is superb. Wizi tu ndio tupunguze.
@@News254Kenya Hapo umenena kabisa!
hata wizi is superb
Haha tell them
Tuko mbele na bado watu wetu wanakufa njaa??
Niice
Good job..
I thought my teacher made PHYSICS hard..This engineer is making it even harder. I'm glued to only what Jeff says. I still don't understand how wind becomes electricity.
Another great step forward.
Wind actually does the work of rotating the turbines just as water rotates the turbines where they are connected to the generator which uses the turning motion of the shaft to rotate a rotor which has oppositely charge magnets and is surrounded by copper wire loops. Electromagnetic induction is created by the rotor spinning around the inside of the core, generating electricity.
Barns Kiugs
Read my friend. Don't you know how to read? Become a friend of google. We live in an information age. You cannot blame anyone else but yourself.
vincent malowa are you on Twitter? IreneJiggerKeny
LMAO 😂😂😂
The one in kinagob should be restarted, and this time the politicians should shut their gobs.
I cannot agree more,leaders in that region are very apt in fighting development projects that are likely to contribute to national growth and that of the locals.
Moses Mukuna now the kinangop people know who not to elect next time 😁...misguided and anti-maendeleo leaders!
I don't care what anyone says but thank you China for actually getting things done. I rather pay 50% more and see it done than pay 40% more to some westerners and Europeans and see it delayed forever.
Let no one cheat you power prices will come down. Economics of power generation and distribution can be complex.
Thanks. I Supervised the Geotechnical Investigations for the 365 turbines for 9months. Kudos
OK very well for Kenya and all Africa
So the Spanish go bankrupt while the Chinese finish this in 4months? 🤣🤣
True
Europeans are just paper tigers
It's not hard when you understand the science of electricity . Wind power is much easier than Hydraulic . The Chinese are the leader on wind power now .
Is it possible to use this footage for a 2 minutes story for the Italian broadcasting company? or are there copyright restrictions? Thanks for your advice.
Well , am a Kenyan and I don't think there is any restrictions to use the information at all , you may use the information at any time.
Just so we're clear, The Thika Road isn't a superhighway. Its just a a dual carriage highway. Tuache hypes. Hiyo in kuabisha wakenya. Look up superhighways and you'll be humbled.
Good progress
Superb. I hope this will power something to inject production in the country.
Joseph Saipimae Lenkungwani my schoolmate. As intelligent as you were.
awesome
Protect the locals they should not be exploited
Jeff Koinange is a good documentary narrator.
I and my form 4 Githungu is wondering whether power is evacuated or transmitted???
Both works, it's a technical language.
Chinese get things done, Europeans exploit things.
we should appreciate development
This Turnkana man must be wise turkana !
Acountry below Ethiopian will be super power
what about the ngong hills turbines?
Those ones are already connected to the grid
What about them?
Already connected to the grid but they are upgrading it
this is great job to the kenya gov this is what the western countries are using you will never had any black out good job
Wait...so you mean to tell me there was no power transmission in the whole of Turkana prior to this line?
@JAMES MUGO but no transmission line means no electricity right?
@JAMES MUGO I guess there was no wind generated Transmission Line before in Turkana and most of Kenya as a matter of fact.
Not really, lines used for supply are different from the high voltage ones used in evacuating power from transmission stations.
Thats why we need a Turkana for president
Sasa politicians msiharibu kama Mumias tutawaangalia sana
The longer the transmission line the more power you lose.
gemkachar
Very true! Turkana people should be given the priority of the power supply.
True, but the power loss depends on distance and voltage level. That line is 400kV and is about 432km (268 miles). Transmission engineers generally start worrying about significant losses at about 643km (400miles) and above for 400kV lines. From experience I'd venture to say the losses on this line are less than 2%. Now if it was a 220kV line then the losses would be almost 4-5% which is unacceptable and above the approved limits
Who are these 3 haters disliking jameni
Watanzania..lol
@@aliciafields-worldtravelle8248 Acha ufala wewe. Watanzania walichukua nini chako?
@@kiswahilikitukuzwe2547 mlichoma kuku zetu hahaha
How about drilling for Water?
Irene Davo..are you insinuating this is a vanity project.i get taxed and when projects like this are completed I feel proud.. you don't care about Kenya,all you do is troll anything positive about Kenya and post your rhetoric(whether it's about those jiggers you always talking about,or now this about digging wells) .we are sorting our issues please keep your aid/love/sympathy or whatever it is you think you give Kenya...and why always on videos showing Kenyan progress
Most Prestigious brand in Wind-power is SUZLON, i hope they have selected SUZLON.
Wow Kenya is developing so fast while Uganda can hardly lay one track for the SGR.
hire china to do it for you lol
Sam king indeed they should hire China to do it for them .May be hire China to get rid of their 74 year old dictator Museveni of 32 years.
@@servantoftheonetruegodalmi7212 😂 museveni joh, he is giving a bad name for dictators
Am in roads and we’re suffering infiltration from the Chinese, Israeli(pick SBI) etc and would wish that kind of fight am seeing in roads (read matatu) extended here. Challenge, what are these guys doing on inadequate land compensation specifically. In Nyandarua?
When will Jeff report on Jigger Victims in Kenya?
You always comment about jiggers are you a victim?
Dexter Dexx 😂😂😂😂😂😂Yeah sure she is😈
Huyu engineer alisoma wapi.
From Kisima high school to JKUAT!!! Eng. Joseph...yeaaaah
The problem is that the county that is producing this power( marsabit) is not benefing at all. No reliable power
He said 200mw i thought they promised 310mw?
If this area rivals European offshore wind farms, why use turbines that can't produce even a MW? They could have used 60 turbines. Why build 365? The penalty costs incurred on this project will hurt Kenyans for a long time to come. 300MW is maximum. 200MW is average. The Chinese contractors strung the HV line in 60 days. That means they were stringing on average 7km/day (of heavy conductor). Stop playing...
made by siemens operated by kenyans.tell this to chinese who are still running the sgr
Daniel Njoroge
The Chinese are still running the SGR? Tujihadhari sana na hao watu. Najua wanaiba madini na pembe za tembo na kifaru za Tsavo na kusafirisha kwao. Ni lazima tukae macho!
China will own Kenya!
@@irenedavo3768 what wrong with that? Wazungu were here an we ain't going no where.
@@kiswahilikitukuzwe2547 if i build for you (and remember it is with my own money)................i must supervise it cause i don't want you to mismanage my hard earned capital,......... especially cause your media keeps portraying you in negative ways................ The Chinese send their own people to oversee operations, but the western countries don't need to, because they already have their recruited puppets (i.e politicians) this way you don't get to see their white face, in fact many of our leaders are Europeans in black skin. .........................Everyone wants to entrap Africa in Debt, but at least the Chinese entrapment is much softer & manageable............... This situation infuriates the west and they start preaching "debt trap" which our media sings along to, but they have been doing the same thing for hundred of years (slavery & colonization) and sometimes with no tangible progress for us.
The whole project should have been given to the chinese from the word go but graft could not have made it exist
It is time for the Kenyan engineers to step up the ladder and air their grievances to avoid further exploitation. The government and private sector view Kenyan engineers as second hand professionals. It is very strange that foreign engineers earn upto 1000% more than our own engineers,,
No SOLAR on EQUATOR
Equatorial regions have less sun since most of the days its either cloudy or rainy, its not economically viable to build a Solar station for a region that receives full sun for less than 150 days, but for this region you see in the video solar power is viable since this one is a desert.
Haki ulikuwa ekas 1000, iliporwa kuptia iyo project ya sikitisha sana wenye arithi awakulipwa kabisa
Is the engineer a Somali? From the face looks etc
He is Kenyan just know that...hiyo mambo ingine jiekee ama namna gani jameni?
Samburu guy
He is samburu......
@@yvekabite8491 Who asked you😕😕
It's a public forum, anyways I'm sorry if I offended u
How many Kenyans have no Electric!
Irene Davo So what is your point?
This not part of the problem but part of the solution to that problem
None
HAMUNA HAYA NA AIBU MUKIONGELESHANA KINGEREZA IHALI NYINYI WAWILI LUGHA ILE MUNAELEWA VIZURI ZAIDI KUEXPLAIN VITU, NI KISWAHILI. SHAME ON YOU. KUMANINA ZENYU NYINYI. BE PROUD OF KISWAHILI.MWACHEKESHA KAMA NYANI. Otherwise mumefanya kazi nzuri sana ya umeme
Ngeta Nthuku Lol we speak English best you crass Tanzanian...otherwise if you prefer us speaking swahili..what about Sheng'😉
Seriously???, una misamiati zote katika nyanja hii Nishati? Engineer utamwitaje? Power evacuation utasemaje? Kizungu muhimu.
Kweli Turkana kuna shida,all the Engineers are tall and thin 😊....
They live healthy. Keep fit brothers
one turbine has already failed!
James Mburu So what every man-made structure stands for failure at some point😁😁
i was excited until i heard chines did the project and then 70billion debt kwisha sisi. you see Chinese have alterior motives always
you heard bad. The Chinese only did the transmission line after the spanish failed us. The windmills were from a european company and google has shares in it. And its not govt debt or project, its a private investment that built to get profit just like if you bought a matatu to make a profit.
Steve swakei
It is mainly a Danish project and other Nordic countries. The Spanish company was initially contracted to do the transmission lines but they filed for bankruptcy before the Chinese won the bid to replace them.
+AwesomeEdu ooh ok, wa!! better haki. we here chines these days hadi unasahau the rest of the story. ok good
+Kiswahili Kitukuzwe 254 china is the most populated country on earth. i feel they trick most poor countries into an overwhelming debts that they cannot repay, soon they'll start possessing these lands in pretense of their debt collection. look at malawi and Sri Lanka
@@steveswakei9600 Stop blaming china for anything, its kenyan politicians who sign the deals and go all the way to china to take loans so blame them not china.
Secondly without china we wouldnt have thika road and all those highways they are building all over the country most of which kenyan companies can only dream of contructing and also the sgr.
China is great and i believe if we are sober and know what we want as a country they can help us achieve it,the problem comes when gok inflates the projects and makes stupid deisions then start blaming others
We have the worst planners in KENYA . Why is the SGR not electrified ? If the same government knew that in the near future they would be producing such large amounts of kW in Turkana . 😭😭😭 I sometimes question those in power their strategic thinking & planning is disheartening. who constructs a diesel railway network and a mega wind power farm in the same economical season 🤨.
That was because electricity in Kenya was not reliable before
You should know that Electrifying doesn't mean more speed..😊
Just speak Swahili
What can you see there Jeff which is worth 70 billion shillings, (700 million USD)? Sometimes we have to ask serious questions.
@JAMES MUGO i may agree with sm wn here, am not saying it never costed that, but we need accountability and transparency. Government cannot just commission projects and expect no questions, thats what civilized people do
lemmy sirma But you should question with facts buddy let us not just argue about everything😁😁
@@franga7870 I get your point which is a valid one, but that's not my argument, all am asking is don't you think it's the prerogative of the Kenyan citizen to have all the info concerning mega projects courtesy of our government. Its tax payers money, which it should be transparent and accountable.
lol its a private investment. if it was built by government it would cost 150 billion
this is a private business so 70bn means its the cheapest price you can bid