Abstract
This chapter investigates how wind and solar energy parks (large and small) provide opportunities to build capabilities that have the potential to enable more inclusive economic and social development in Kenya. It analyses what types of capabilities are built through renewable energy projects and asks whether the size and shape of a project is important to the opportunities to build capabilities. It finds that size of the project is important but that valuable capabilities are built in both large- and small-scale renewable electrification projects. It finds that across both large and small projects, a specific set of capabilities are important: linkage capabilities or a series of dynamic capabilities at the strategic level relating to project management. The findings raise interesting questions on the way projects are designed and managed and the need for more research on the relative merits of different types of project management contracts. This has implications for the way policy is promoted not just in skills development but also local content rules and the wider issue of export-oriented sustainable industrialisation.
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