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Google will acquire Vestas’ 12.5% stake in Africa’s largest wind farm, the 310-megawatt Lake Turkana in Kenya.
The Lake Turkana wind park is expected to be one of the most efficient wind parks in the world, and have an annual power production of more than 1,400 GWh, which will provide around 15% of Kenya’s electricity needs based on current generation capacity. The wind park is owned by Lake Turkana Wind Power and is key to Kenya’s development goals.

Impax Asset Management’s fund has signed an agreement to sell its 206-megawatt portfolio of wind projects to ERG Renew, the renewable energy subsidiary of the Italian multi-energy company ERG Group.
Financial details of the deal, scheduled to close by the end of this year, were not disclosed.
The sale is part of Impax’s planned realisation of the operating assets in accordance with its fund’s strategy. Impax has grown the portfolio by acquisitions from 2010 to 2014. The majority of the projects were constructed under the ownership of the fund. The fund continues to own a wind project development business in France which it aims to expand significantly through construction and acquisition in the coming years.