Lewi

GEOTHERMAL DEVELOPMENT COMPANY - NAIROBI BRANCH.

INDUSTRIAL TRAINING AND ATTACHMENT REPORT

Compiled by;

Lewis Mureithi Kariuki

MOUNT KENYA UNIVERSITY

SCHOOL OF PURE AND APPLIED SCIENCES

DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

SUBMITTED TO,

HEAD OF DEPARTMENT, INFORMATION AND TECHNOLOGY.

MOUNT KENYA UNIVERSITY – NAIROBI BRANCH

PERIOD: 24TH AUGUST 2015 TO 13TH NOVEMBER 2015

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I am extremely grateful to God Almighty for the gift of life, sound mind and health throughout my attachment period. I express my gratitude to the university for giving me a chance to undertake my industrial attachment at Geothermal Development Company. I appreciate all the entire management of Mount Kenya University, my parents and the entire management of GDC group for their immense support, encouragement, guidance and assistance in accomplishing the purpose of the attachment. Special thanks to Ms. Morin Opondo ICT officer 1 for taking me through various tasks at ICT department during the attachment period.

INTRODUCTION TO GEOTHERMAL DEVELOPMENT COMPANY

Geothermal Development Company is a Kenyan Corporation owned by the Kenyan government to fast track the development of geothermal resources in the country. GDC was created on the government’s policy on energy – Sessional paper No.4 of 2004, and the energy Act No.12 of 2006 - which un-bundled the key players in the electricity sector to ensure efficiency. Research of 1957 has shown Kenya can produce a massive potential estimate at 7000MW to 10000MW but it has only yielded to 280MW only. Kenya has relied heavily on hydroelectricity so the government has identified the country’s untapped geothermal potential as the most suitable indigenous source of electricity. GDC...