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Costly electricity bars Kenya from becoming energy-secure country
Summary
Expensive pricing has hit Kenya’s transition into an energy-secure country over the past decade, a new index shows, despite improvements in customer connections, uptake of renewable energy and high capital investment.
The Energy Transition Index for 2021 by the World Economic Forum (WEF) says though Kenya is among developing nations that had steadily increased electricity access over the review period, its pricing remained a challenge.
The country is ranked at position 61 in the index benchmarking 115 countries on their transition progress, compared to position 71 in 2019.
Tuesday May 04 2021
By ELIZABETH KIVUVA
Summary
Expensive pricing has hit Kenya’s transition into an energy-secure country over the past decade, a new index shows, despite improvements in customer connections, uptake of renewable energy and high capital investment.
THE STANDARD By
Allan Mungai |
January 8th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300
Majority Leader Amos Kimunya addresses a past press conference in Karen Nairobi. [File, David Njaaga, Standard]
A senior member of the Jubilee Party has blamed Kenya’s current debt burden on what he calls Jubilee administration’s populist projects started between 2013 and 2017.
National Assembly Majority Leader Amos Kimunya said the projects are undertaken by the government in President Uhuru Kenyatta’s first term, and which were financed by debt, are costing the country.
Between 2013 and 2017, he said, the commitments made to electrify the country or extend railway lines did not factor in the cost.