Solar Installation in Kesses

Where Kesses sits in Uasin Gishu. Of the 4 constituencies in this county we hold confirmed elevation data for, Kesses is the highest — and those constituencies span 398 m between highest and lowest. That spread is the reason a county-level figure is not good enough to size against: two sites in Uasin Gishu can need different machines for the same load.

Against the county headquarters. Kesses sits 116 m above Eldoret and runs 0.6 °C cooler on a design day. The difference is modest, but it is real, and it moves in the direction you would expect from the terrain.

Nearby, for comparison. Turbo at 1,813 m, Soy at 1,941 m, Moiben at 2,135 m. Sites within a few kilometres of each other can still differ enough to matter, which is why we size against a measured site altitude rather than a district average.

Getting there. Kesses is roughly 252 km north-west of our Embakasi, Nairobi workshop in a straight line. Our mobile workshop covers all 47 counties, so attendance here is routine rather than exceptional.

How to read these figures. They describe Kesses, the settlement these measurements were taken at, which is not necessarily the centre of Kesses — treat them as a local reference point, not your site value. Derates are planning indications (about 1% per 100 m above 300 m, about 2% per 5 °C above 25 °C); the engine's own derate table governs. Elevation: GeoNames, via the Open-Meteo Geocoding API. Temperature: Open-Meteo ERA5 reanalysis, 2025 daily maxima. Both CC BY 4.0, retrieved 2026-08-08.