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<p class=MsoPlainText>Dear Solomon and Aki:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>This sounds very useful and I want to share with my two
friends - the Njoroges at KPLC and KenGen. What I can say here is Joseph was merely
a messenger. Let us not shoot him but his message can't escape shooting. It is
Eddy and Mr Kiraitu Murungi who must tell Kenyans, <u>today</u>, why the Mumias
Sugar cost of scheduled maintenance had no alternative. We also need to know
from Mr Uhuru Kenyatta his good and/or bad reasons for not signing off security
guarantees for the IPPs.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>The lead story in "The Star" today is also an
eyeopener - that Eddy has written to PPOA wanting to block IPPs associated with
former KPLC boss Mr Samuel Gichuru. Yes, we understand that we do not have
enough electricity but the surprise announcement, political intrigues around
the control of energy sector (hope people will not talk about the Chinese here)
vis-à-vis the political derby of 2012. As Chinua Achebe would say about
Nigeria, the trouble with Kenya's energy sector is simply and squarely the over-reliance
on hydro-electricity, poor planning and lack of leadership. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>In the meantime, those of us who are lucky to get power
in our homes, places of work – please use it carefully including switching over
during lunch and other breaks. If we can save the little available, it could be
send to Industrial Area so that unga manufacturers do not come up with a Sh200
bill for 2kg packet by this week – as they are likely to do.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Stephen Mutoro<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><a href="http://www.cofek.co.ke">www.cofek.co.ke</a> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>-----Original Message-----<br>
From: kictanet-bounces+stephen=cofek.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke
[mailto:kictanet-bounces+stephen=cofek.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf Of
Solomon Mburu Kamau<br>
Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 10:35 AM<br>
To: stephen@cofek.co.ke<br>
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions<br>
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Introduction of Power rationing for industrial zones :
A result of failure of national planning policies?</p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>I'm equally enraged.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>How in the world did KPLC decide time for rationing has
come? Isn't it<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>their duty to provide consumers with power using planned
mechanism,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>say by purchising genrators well in advance?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>As Aki has put it, some of these things did not occur
overnight!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Interestingly, could it be a calculated undertaking, just
a few days<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>after Angela Merkel passed by, signed some nuclear power
deal between<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Kenya and Germany, while Germany is planning to phase
their nuclear<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>power plants, gradually, after the Japan incident? So
because the govt<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>(read KPLC) knew that Kenyans would be against the
nuclear power<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>(thanks to the constitution), so they create a panic mode
that will<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>force us go the nuclear power way?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>This is absurd, and I wonder how the Medium Term Plan
(2008-2012) of<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>the Vision 2030 will be measured if power will be
'managed' this<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>way!!!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>On 26/07/2011, Phares Kariuki <pkariuki@gmail.com>
wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> Agreed. My problem is that, even in the face of the
rationing, Kengen<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> management has the capital to go after firms in
Nigeria, but somehow cannot<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> fully tap geothermal due to lack of capital...<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>>
http://www.panapress.com/Ghanaian,-Kenyan-firms-bid-for-Nigeria-s-electricity-companies--15-780078-26-lang2-index.html<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> The rational previously was that Kengen was a
parastatal, so could have a<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> monopoly, if it's privatized however, as it is now,
competition needs to be<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> introduced.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Rad!
<conradakunga@gmail.com> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>>> Personally I am deeply frustrated at this.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>>><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>>> We are trying to leap ahead in leaps and bounds
in many sectors but we are<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>>> still hobbled by inefficient power supply. In
2011.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>>><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>>> Our reliance of this unholy alliance between
Kengen and KPLC yet still<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>>> aiming for Vision 2030 is the textbook
definition of gambling.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>>><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>>> In their excuses for non performance KPLC listed
as its first reason<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>>> "Delayed planting of new power generators
due to prolonged period of<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>>> processing payments' security guarantees."<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>>><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>>> Amazing.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>>><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>>> Question: has the possibility of alternative
power generators and<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>>> distributors been explored?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>>><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>>> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 8:32 AM, aki
<aki275@gmail.com> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>>><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>>>> This game is repeated each time we are in
drought years, with the quick<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>>>> "import" mentality rush to get in
fdi partners or the rest to<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>>>> invest buy/lease diesel guzzling generators
to compliment the shortfalls<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>>>> is<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>>>> becoming too routine. More results of
shortcuts implemented over years of<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>>>> failed national planning policies and
excuses that is resulting in many<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>>>> direct/indirect losses in the economy. This
time around there are<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>>>> multiple<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>>>> excuses, from high demands during peak hours
to breakdowns/maintainence<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>>>> of<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>>>> generators to delays in security guarantees
for investors. High demands<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>>>> during peak hours is an incremental event
and did not just appear<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>>>> overnight,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>>>> water levels did not drop overnight and nor
did investors just apply to<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>>>> supply power. We have known for years our
climate is changing patterns (<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>>>> no<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>>>> thanks to the major polluters i.e the
developed nations who contribute<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>>>> most towards the climate behaviour ),
rainfall patterns in our region has<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>>>> been out of sync for at least the past 10
years so. We have all the data,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>>>> the remote sensing abilities and
infrastructure to maintain an<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>>>> intelligent<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>>>> national network of early warning systems to
counter gaps yet we are only<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>>>> capable of the ultimate solution = power
rationing. Surely even economic<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>>>> planners must be enraged by this nonsense. (
Corrections very welcome )<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>>>><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>>>><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>>>> Full story :<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>>>><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>>>> http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Corporate+News/Power+rationing+signals+fresh+rise+in+cost+of+consumer+goods/-/539550/1207750/-/item/0/-/xqgsl/-/index.html<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>>>><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>>>><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>>>><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>>>> Rgds. :-)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>>>><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>>>><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>>>><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>>>><o:p> </o:p></p>
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