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@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@gmail.com> wrote:

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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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-- ______________________ Mwendwa Kivuva For Business Development Transworld Computer Channels Cel: 0722402248 twitter.com/lordmwesh transworldAfrica.com | Fluent in computing kenya.or.ke | The Kenya we know