Energy Expansion in Kenya: Prospects, Challenges and Implications for the Global Energy Transition – Talk by Frankline Ndi

Thu | May 8th, 2025 | 18:00 (CEST) I Geo-Bio-Hörsaal, University of Cologne, Zülpicher Straße 49a, 50674 Cologne

Researcher Frankline Ndi will give a presentation on Kenya’s energy expansion at the University of Cologne on 8 May 2025. Ndi works in the Future Rural Africa sub-project C02 Energy Futures and investigates the dynamics of future-making that are associated with the planning and implementation of large-scale renewable energy projects in previously marginalized areas.



Energy Expansion in Kenya: Prospects, Challenges and Implications for the Global Energy Transition


With Dr Frankline Ndi (Project C02 Energy Futures).

What does Kenya’s energy future look like? What opportunities, tensions and global connections shape renewable energy development?

Dr Frankline Ndi will speak about the dynamics of large-scale land acquisitions, renewable infrastructure and local realities of life in Kenya in the context of the green transformation.


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