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[lordmwesh]

Kenya has been a country with entrenched vested interests. We have
companies that generate independent power through diesel generators and
sell it to the national grid at a handsome profit. People who own these
companies are well known through the Kenyan political pecking order. If its
their time to eat, how dare you tell Kengen/GDC to increase renewable
energy power generation, while this crocodiles benefit from our inadequacy
to produce enough? Its actually more expensive buying KPLC power when they
insert those diesel costs than generating your own electricity using power
generators.

By the way, between 2008 and 2011, power bills increased by more than 100%.

How does the country BENEFIT from the power deficit? Do the maths. “At a
GDP size of $29.5 billion in 1999, the estimated loss during the [drought
of 1999 to 2002] was $442 million, which if it had been invested in the
renewable energy would have built almost three times the installed
emergency power capacity,”

Where is the salvation?

On 1 March 2012 09:52, Emmanuel Khisa <oloo.khisa at googlemail.com> wrote:

> What I have never understood is this craziness I call the "Smallness
> Mentality". If we have potential for 7,000 Mw in geothermal energy, why
> would KenGen be talking of doing 540 Mw between now and 2018...Really??? So
> what happens between now and then? GDC whose sole job year in year out is
> to produce geothermal power are talking of adding 230Mw (Again only)
> between now and end of 2014. Are we serious? And let's not even talk of
> cost hear...because that is what marshall plans are for...We should be
> doing at the very least 500Mw annually if we are to keep with growth...Mugo
> Kibati, Sir, does Vision 2030 find this tenable...and we have all these
> investors coming to town?
>
> Before we go Nuclear, can we sort out the low hanging fruits....!
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 8:59 AM, lordmwesh <lordmwesh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Robert, Chinese cement is cheaper locally, than locally manufactured
>> cement.
>> Absurd but true.
>>
>> We cannot run away from the fact that we need cheaper electric energy,
>> and not every business enterprise want to run its own business, and also
>> produce its own electricity.
>>
>> The only salvation is to go the South African way in power policy.
>>
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