The Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) has unveiled its first Battery Energy Storage System (BESS)at its Nairobi headquarters, a move aimed at powering its modular data centre and advancing the country's shift toward clean energy and digital resilience. By storing any excess renewables and smoothing out the energy output, large-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS) enable variable energy shifting and ensure power supply is available and sufficient when needed. The project uses lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries – the same technology powering electric buses on Thika Road but scaled up. Kenya currently has approximately 210 MW of grid-connected solar, accounting for 6. 5 per cent of installed electricity capacity. From the left: Wesley Kipyegon, State Department Energy, David Wedepohl, German Solar Association, John Kinyanjui EPRA, Florian Wessendolf CEO Solar, George Phlomm German. Renewable energy transitions, technological advances, and geopolitical disruptions have brought various forms of energy storage to the forefront of sustainability and infrastructure debates. In a speech read on his behalf during the opening of the Intersolar Africa 2026 conference in.