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Monday, March 20, 2023 – Energy Cabinet Secretary (CS) Davis Chirchir has disclosed a major factor that necessitated the increase in electricity prices in the last five years.
Speaking during the inspection of a geothermal power plant in Menengai, Chirchir explained that the country resorted to using diesel to boost power generation.
He pointed out that hydroelectric power generation, which was more affordable, had dropped by more than half within the period.
“Hydroelectricity has been fairly poor in the last five years, and whereas we are supposed to deliver 30 per cent of the power at USD4 cents, we have been delivering only 11 per cent.”
“We have been supplementing the grid to provide power security using diesel generation and that is what has been hurting,” the CS explained.
In the five years, the cost of diesel shot up both locally and internationally, owing to changes in the market prices of scarce crude oil.
The high demand for fuel during the coronavirus pandemic and the Ukrainian-Russian conflict and sanctions led to an increase in barrel prices.
Chirchir stated that due to the country’s ongoing, unpredictable weather patterns, there was a need to explore other power generation forms, such as geothermal.
The drop in water rainfall in the country raised concerns about a possible electricity shortage in the wake of multiple blackouts.
The Kenyan DAILY POST
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When you look at this guy does he look he can solve anything!
He should just go home.
Some baboon as this one have no solution to any problems facing the nation and should not be appointed to any public office.