"Court hands a lifeline to second 300MW Marsabit wind project," 22 November 2021

The High Court has ordered the Ministry of Energy and the sector regulator, Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (Epra), to include a 300 megawatt (MW) wind power plant to its list of approved electricity projects... in line with the approval of February 16, 2010, granted for the project in Bubisa, Marsabit...

Gitson Energy Ltd, a Kenyan-Diaspora owned energy company had applied and received approval from the Ministry of Energy in 2010 to start a wind power project in Marsabit County. Land gazettement issues... delayed the project...

Gitson Energy Chief Executive James Gitau said the ruling paves way for the company to harness renewable energy.

The firm is to regularise the land issue as held by the Court Appeal in 2017...