KENYA ELECTRICITY GENERATING COMPANY LIMITED

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KENYA ELECTRICITY GENERATING COMPANY LIMITED

• EFFECTIVE DESIGN AND MANAGEMENT OF ASSETS.
• Paper Presented by Jennifer Oduor

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INTRODUCTION

• Kenya Electricity Generating Company Limited
  (KenGen) is the leading electric power generation
  company in Kenya, producing about 80 percent of
  electricity consumed in the country.
• KenGen uses Hydro, geothermal, thermal, wind and
  currently exploring possibilities of increasing
  its capacity by using solar technology and
  conversion of waste to energy technologies.
• KenGen has an asset base of approximately Kenya
  Shillings 163 Billion and its landed property
  spans across the country.

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LOCATION OF POWER GENERATING FACILITIES
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PICTORIAL DEFINITION OF GIS
Diagram 1 Concept of Layers in GIS
Converting tables of data into such a visual form
is immediately and immensely powerful
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HOW KENGEN APPLIES GEOSPATIAL INFORMATION SYSTEM
IN DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF ASSETS

• 1. Geothermal Field Potential Assessment.
• Generation of geothermal-based electric energy
  requires huge capital investment for-
• conclusive geo-scientific studies
• Large amounts of Field data collected by the
  various independent geo-scientific disciplines,
  such as, Geology, geophysics, geochemistry,
  geothermal reservoir engineering and environment
  departments .
• Data is analyzed and interpreted using GIS
  systems analytical capabilities and mapping to
  select areas of sufficient geothermal potential
  for further development.
• This has had a positive financial impact on
  the company due to the improved certainty of
  sinking productive geothermal wells.

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Geophysical data Geological structures
Geochemistry and well Terrain Model
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Resultant Map of merging Data from the different
Disciplines
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2. Geothermal infrastructure integrated Planning

• Geothermal infrastructure consists of
• Power stations, wells, steam gathering pipe
  networks, Access road networks, brine disposal
  and re-injection pipe network, power evacuation
  lines and water supply lines.
• Factors considered in designing
  infrastructure include -
• the terrain, the environmental information,
  existing infrastructure, recommended buffer
  distances between components, animal routes,
  property boundaries and any protected zones among
  many others.
• Geospatial information systems analytical and
  geo-processing tools makes it possible to
  incorporate all the necessary inputs to optimize
  the design and location of the geothermal
  infrastructure for KenGen.
• This has had a significant positive impact
  in the avoidance of environmental conflicts and
  financial well being of the company. This would
  not be possible without the GIS system.

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Geothermal Infrastructure -(Olkaria)
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Environmental Conservation , management and
Monitoring of Environmental impacts.

• Olkaria Geothermal project is located
  within the Hells Gate national park which prides
  itself with the presence of many different animal
  and bird species not to mention the vegetation.
• KenGen is sensitive to this reality and has
  adopted conservation measures to safeguard the
  environment and mitigate the impact of the
  exploitation of the geothermal resource within
  the park and other areas close to communitys
  habitations.
• Mapping of the environmentally sensitive areas
  such as steep slopes gorges, bird nesting
  grounds, animal breeding grounds and the
  emergence of invasive species has been
  continuously done.
• It is mandatory to comply with the conservation
  regulation in the design of all the components of
  geothermal exploitation such as well location,
  waste disposal, pipeline route design, power
  plant location and general attitude within the
  park.
• Where some damage is inevitable, clear mitigation
  plan must be demonstrated to the satisfaction of
  the enforcing agency.

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Conflict prediction and management with local
communities(Case study Eburru)

• KenGen uses GIS information system to identify,
  in advance, the areas of possible conflict
  between the company and local communities due its
  operations and to plan for ways of mitigating the
  effects.

Caption1 Caption from a Daily Newspaper Cutting
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Map3 Crop damage and Long term conflict
resolution in Eburru by identifying areas that
must be purchased.
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LAND ACQUISITION

• KenGen uses GIS in land acquisition to aid in
  providing information on the land terrain for
  purposes of zoning the land to facilitate
  purchase negotiation decisions. For example,
  recently the company had to purchase land for
  resettlement purposes.
• As part of the resettlement package, the Company
  is expected to construct houses for the Project
  Affected Persons (PAPS) who are classified
  according to their Villages. The land had fairly
  rugged terrain.
• GIS was used to identify suitable land for
  construction of houses within the rugged terrain.
  Maps were created showing the different land
  zones as shown in

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Land Acquisition
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Using GIS to select areas for resettlement
of communities affected by geothermal activities
at Olkaria
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BENEFITS OF ADOPTING THE USE OF GIS TECHNOLOGY

• One Stop Data Shop The GIS department has been
  acting as technical library, putting volumes of
  GIS data onto the shelves where they are
  available to all users throughout the company.
• Information Pool A key advantage of property
  information management using GIS is the synergy
  arising from the pooling of information. A
  particular benefit of GIS is the ability to
  integrate data from a wide range of company
  sources using location as a common point of
  reference.
• Data Credibility If managed properly the process
  of data integration will alleviate or neutralize
  problems of data duplication, reduce data
  limitations and help to reduce data capture
  costs.
• Data Base Management An ability to handle
  changes in features over time. GIS provides an
  opportunity to tailor the database to suit
  different types of users. It also provides
  High-quality map production.
• Data Security Provision of authority-wide access
  to a corporate resource Geographical analysis of
  property information
• Cross Relation Each land parcel can be related
  to other geographical and demographic
  information.
• Asset Management Users can establish what
  property interests are owned in any given area,
  by whom, Acreage and Encumbrances if any.

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CHALLENGES FACED IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF GIS
TECHNOLOGY

• Merging Various Interests The various
  departments (like geology, geophysics, drilling,
  environmental etc.) have independent systems and
  of handling their data and data management
  soft-wares, thus several stages of data reduction
  and/or reformatting before importing into the GIS
  databases is a major challenge.
• Manual Information Some of the information is in
  hard copies (e.g. hard copy reports, maps, hand
  written tables, scale-less diagrams etc) that
  require digitizing, geo- referencing and
  extensive field ground research.
• Culture Change Lack of data sharing culture
  among professionals, institutions and Government
  departments has been and still is the biggest
  stumbling block of benefiting from vast amount of
  innovative work by many great minds. Most
  professionals believe that the value of data and
  information enhances depending on scarcity of the
  information. The fact is that the information
  itself is not important unless it is shared among
  professionals.
• Justifying Investing in GIS Quantification in
  monetary terms of investment in GIS Hardware and
  Software to the organization is a challenge and
  hence justify an increase in budget provisions
  going forward.
• Training There is urgent need for training more
  people in GIS!

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PROPOSED AREAS WHERE KenGen INTENDS TO
APPLY GIS TECHNOLOGY

• Land Administration and Management.
• Human Resource Management.
• Company fleet management.
• Corporate social responsibility management and
  monitoring.
• Power Outage prediction mitigation analysis

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