Israeli Engineers To Build 100 MW Coast Power Plant****SEA WAVE ENERGY PRODUCTION IS AN INNOVATIVE
TECHNOLOGY WITH GREAT GENERATING POTENTIAL
NAIROBI - Israeli company SDE Energy on Tuesday said the Kenyan government has granted it an approval for the establishment of a 100 MW power plant on the Kenyan coast.
SDE Energy said the 100 MW power plant will be installed along the shores of Kenya, with a production cost of two U. S. cents per KW, while the produced energy will be bought by the local electric company, KPLC, with a tariff of eight cents per KW.
“The installation of the power plant will be executed in co-operation with local company Sea Wave Gen. SDE has recently signed an agreement in Mexico for the establishment of a 1MW power plant,” the firm said.
Sea wave energy production is an innovative technology with great potential.
The waves are created as a result of the winds on the surface of the ocean. Energy production factors include the velocity of the wind as a factor of the wave height; the wind’s consistency; the ocean surface area, its depth, and its topography. It is this energy that the technology of SDE is interested in harnessing and using as a green and renewable energy source.
The U.N. Development Pro-gram report (UNDP), released in November last year declared that widespread methods of power production cause tremendous large-scale harm to the environment and contribute to man-made climate change.
The effects of global warming show us the necessity of green renewable energy.
The heat waves, floods, and other natural disasters that occur in every continent have created a need for nations to adopt alternative energy production.
“SDE’s sea wave energy production method is the ideal solution for the severe pollution and electrical shortage in Kenya ,” the company said.
It noted that the technology enables production of energy in a clean and cost-efficient manner, which will reduce the environmental pollution without damaging the industrial and financial growth in Kenya , which is restricted as a result of the electric shortage.
“The new sea wave power plant, which is actually the 9th plant built at Jaffa Port by SDE company, has been finalized and operated in the recent days, proving itself as a better and improved version of the previous models.
It can produce 60 KWh (with only one buoy), it is a fully automatic model, and only 10 per cent of the whole system is in the waters, which minimizes the risk to the system in cases of storms and other disasters.
SDE’s sea wave energy production is unique, innovative and cost- efficient.
The system is considered as most efficient and offered in a competitive price — the price for construction of a 1MW power plant operated by SDE amounts to 650,000 dollars, compared with costs amounting to 1.5 million dollars for coal, 900,000 dollars for gas, three million dollars for solar energy, and 1.5 million dollars for wind power.
“SDE offers a rate of 2 cents per KW, compared to three cents for coal, 3.5 cents for gas, 12 cents for solar energy, and 3.6 cents for wind power,” the statement said.
SDE has built several sea power plants.
Energy prices can determine the stability of a reign and the country’s development. With the price of an oil barrel exceeding 95 dollars today and its price in steep continuous rise, many electric companies are struggling to stay solvent, and the power plants and citizens of those countries are harmed as a result.However, the system each of stem developed by SDE is completely fuel- free and therefore is the most cost-efficient system.
The system developed by SDE has the ability to supply 500 times more power than current world wide wave energy consumption.
SDE owns a world patent, as well as a number of other patents in registration process. So far, SDE has built nine power plant models, each of which was financed by the Israeli government.