Garissa Solar Power Station, Kenya

Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 30 July 2016 at 07:26:22 UTC
Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 21 January 2020 at 07:32:21 UTC
Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 27 December 2020 at 03:03:05 UTC
Author(s): Sentinel Vision team, VisioTerra, France - svp@visioterra.fr
Keyword(s): Renewable energy, green energies, climate change, global warming, land, infrastructure, Kenya.
Fig. 1 - S2 (21.01.2020) - Garissa power station is located in Garissa County, 270 km of the coast, 330 km north-east of Nairobi.
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Fig. 2 - S2 (30.07.2016) - Bordering river Tana, the solar farm sits on 85 hectares and is made of 200 000 solar panels.
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Fig. 3 - S2 (21.01.2020) - Built in 2017, Garissa solar power station is likely to be the largest in East and Central Africa.
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Fig. 4 - S1 (27.12.2020) - The 55-megawatt solar power station is enough to power about 625 000 homes.
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Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024, processed by VisioTerra.
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