The Kenya Ministry of Energy has opened a competitive tender for the rehabilitation and corrective maintenance of 27 wind masts and data loggers distributed across its national wind resource monitoring network. Tender No. MOEP/SDE/ONT/08/2024-2025, published on 25 February 2025, invites bids from qualified service providers capable of restoring these critical meteorological measurement instruments to operational status. The procurement closes on 12 March 2025 at 12:00 East Africa Time, with bid documentation and tender advert files available for download from the ministry's procurement portal.
Wind masts equipped with anemometers, wind vanes, and data loggers form the backbone of Kenya's wind resource assessment infrastructure. These instruments collect continuous measurements of wind speed, direction, air density, and turbulence intensity at prospective generation sites—data that determines bankability and design specifications for utility-scale wind farms. The planned rehabilitation suggests that degradation or malfunction at 27 monitoring locations has created gaps in the ministry's resource mapping dataset, potentially affecting the feasibility assessments of projects currently in the national development pipeline.
Kenya's power sector planning relies on robust meteorological datasets to guide capacity expansion decisions and attract private investment in renewable energy generation. Wind resource data informs the Kenya Power and Lighting company's grid integration studies, determines optimal turbine hub heights and rotor diameters for project developers, and supports environmental impact assessments required under Kenya's environmental management regulations. Sustained data continuity from the monitoring network enables accurate forecasting models that reduce curtailment risk once projects reach commercial operation.
The procurement scope encompasses both hardware restoration and corrective maintenance services, indicating that some instruments require repair or component replacement rather than routine calibration. Bidders must demonstrate technical competence in wind measurement instrumentation, including experience with sonic anemometers, cup anemometers, and data acquisition systems used in renewable energy resource assessments. The rehabilitation campaign, upon contract award, is expected to restore measurement capacity at all 27 sites, replenishing the quality and reliability of wind data available to project developers, research institutions, and energy planners operating in Kenya's rapidly evolving electricity sector.