A fish feed plant becomes the fifth industrial buyer at Kenya's geothermal park.

For a generator whose revenue rests on a single national offtaker, the one buyer that takes its output under contract, Kenya's largest power utility is now selling capacity directly to industry at the point of generation. KenGen has taken on Maxim Agri & Samakgro as the fifth investor at its Green Energy Park, where the new tenant will use 3 MW.

The company is building a plant to make fish feed, rated at 8 metric tonnes an hour, in a project valued at roughly USD 3.95 million. It is the second investor onboarded during 2026, taking the park's total to five. At the same event the utility opened an online portal through which prospective investors can review opportunities at the hub.

Scale gives the arrangement its weight. KenGen reports 1,786 MW installed, more than 90 per cent of it renewable, with geothermal at 754 MW, and puts its share of installed capacity in Eastern Africa above 60 per cent. Read together, the two announcements describe a generator building a second revenue line: industrial buyers served on site, marketed with the tools of an industrial estate rather than those of a power station.

The implication is a shift in the competitive picture for independent power producers in the region, which must now court large industrial loads against a utility that controls the steam, the site and the connection at one address.

Assessment: what the announcement does not carry is a price, a term, or any indication of how the electricity regulator treats on-site supply of this kind against conventional licensed sales. For an asset owner weighing whether to pursue industrial offtake directly, or an energy buyer comparing a grid tariff against a park tariff, that absent number is the one worth chasing. Three megawatts is small in itself. A fifth signature, on a site that can offer both power and steam, is the part that compounds.