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Britain to privatise Green Investment Bank

Britain is to begin selling stakes in its Green Investment Bank (GIB) to bring it into private ownership and to help it to grow, the government said on Thursday. Since the bank was created as a commercial venture at the end of 2012 to back green energy projects and to spur private sector investment it says it has invested 2 billion pounds in 50 projects worth over 8 billion pounds

Kenya's Lake Turkana Wind Power eyes Sept 2016 for first output

By Edmund Blair LAKE TURKANA, Kenya (Reuters) – Kenya’s Lake Turkana Wind Power project aims to start supplying some electricity as early as September 2016, once a transmission line is built linking the remote northern region to the national grid, a director of the project said on Wednesday. The transmission line was approved in August 2014 and will take about two years to build. Carlo Van Wageningen, a director of