{"id":198,"date":"2017-05-29T15:45:09","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T12:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/?p=198"},"modified":"2018-03-13T15:51:45","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T12:51:45","slug":"agce-steering-committee-visits-menengai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/agce-steering-committee-visits-menengai\/","title":{"rendered":"AGCE Steering Committee visits Menengai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-199\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/agce.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"631\" height=\"484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/agce.jpg 631w, https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/agce-300x230.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 631px) 100vw, 631px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Africa Geothermal Centre of Excellence (AGCE) Steering Committee recently visited GDC to assess its preparedness to build capacity in <a class=\"glossaryLink\" aria-describedby=\"tt\" data-cmtooltip=\"&lt;div class=glossaryItemTitle&gt;Geothermal Resource&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;div class=glossaryItemBody&gt;&amp;lt;!-- wp:paragraph --&amp;gt;Geothermal resource is the natural heat, hot water, and steam (found within the Earth) that is extracted and utilized for generating electric power or any other suitable industrial, agricultural, or domestic application.&amp;lt;br\/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;!-- \/wp:paragraph --&amp;gt;&lt;\/div&gt;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/glossary\/geothermal-resource\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-gt-translate-attributes=\"[{&quot;attribute&quot;:&quot;data-cmtooltip&quot;, &quot;format&quot;:&quot;html&quot;}]\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\">geothermal resource<\/a> development within the region. The team inspected training facilities and equipment at Naivasha and the Menengai project area.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-200\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/agce1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"633\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/agce1.jpg 633w, https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/agce1-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 633px) 100vw, 633px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>During the tour of the Naivasha facilities, the team had an opportunity to see students undergoing a pilot training in Leapfrog geothermal software; a leading 3D geological modeling software developed exclusively by industry experts for geothermal, mining, exploration, civil engineering and groundwater technology.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-201\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/agce2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"633\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/agce2.jpg 633w, https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/agce2-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 633px) 100vw, 633px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The five-day training was facilitated by our experts with students drawn from the company, KenGen and the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-202\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/agce3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"633\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/agce3.jpg 633w, https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/agce3-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 633px) 100vw, 633px\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-203\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/agce4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"633\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/agce4.jpg 633w, https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/agce4-300x232.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 633px) 100vw, 633px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Africa Geothermal Centre of Excellence (AGCE) Steering Committee recently visited GDC to assess its preparedness to build capacity in <a class=\"glossaryLink\" aria-describedby=\"tt\" data-cmtooltip=\"&lt;div class=glossaryItemTitle&gt;Geothermal Resource&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;div class=glossaryItemBody&gt;&amp;lt;!-- wp:paragraph --&amp;gt;Geothermal resource is the natural heat, hot water, and steam (found within the Earth) that is extracted and utilized for generating electric power or any other suitable industrial, agricultural, or domestic application.&amp;lt;br\/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;!-- \/wp:paragraph --&amp;gt;&lt;\/div&gt;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/glossary\/geothermal-resource\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-gt-translate-attributes=\"[{&quot;attribute&quot;:&quot;data-cmtooltip&quot;, &quot;format&quot;:&quot;html&quot;}]\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\">geothermal resource<\/a> development within the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31,32,10],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-africa-geothermal-centre-of-excellence","tag-agce","tag-gdc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions\/204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}