Swedish firm moves Sh253bn Malindi power plan to Tanzania

[Shaaban]

@ScotlandYard

Excess power ? Energy access in Kenya only stands at 50% my friend. How do consumers pay for electricity not used? Plus this is a private entity that would be selling to the distributor and grid owner i.e Kenya Power.

True…but we already have a 310-megawatt Lake Turkana Wind Power in northern Kenya which is set for completion in July at a cost of Sh70 billion, and that will match the demand Kenya needs now…before embarking on further projects like the Malindi one

[Fala_12]

@ScotlandYard

Nichange ya mamako.

Typical you

[ScotlandYard]

@Fala 12

Typical you

You saw where it all started or you choose to be blind ? I nip BS in the bud before it stinks in my presence.

[Fala_12]

@ScotlandYard

You saw where it all started or you choose to be blind ? I nip BS in the bud before it stinks in my presence.

Response yako ilikuwa expected

[coldpilsner]

@ScotlandYard

I am withdrawing this thread because it’s becoming a blockheads’ paradise. Even fools who didn’t say shit in the other post are here posting nonsense. 10 mins mpost ujinga yote then I delete it.

Kikuyu hears no evil talks no evil watchs no evil

[coldpilsner]

@ScotlandYard

Excess power ? Energy access in Kenya only stands at 50% my friend. How do consumers pay for electricity not used? Plus this is a private entity that would be selling to the distributor and grid owner i.e Kenya Power.

They will even defend @Fala 12 aki rape punda

[system]

@ScotlandYard

A Swedish firm that wanted to construct Africa’s largest wind power plant in Malindi at a cost of Sh253 billion has relocated the investment to Tanzania, citing frustration by Kenyan authorities.

VR Holding AB had last year expressed interest in building a 600-megawatt (MW) wind farm in the Indian Ocean waters bordering Ras Ngomeni in Malindi, but Ministry of Energy officials turned down the request citing lack of a framework for renewable energy projects of that scale besides low demand for electricity in the country.

READ: Kenya rejects bid for Africa’s largest wind power plant

The firm’s executives said they have now switched their focus to Tanzania, which shares the Indian Ocean coastline.

“We have opted to look at offshore solutions for Tanzania,” Victoria Rikede, an executive at the company said.

“Kenya is proving to be a very difficult place and besides the grid is too weak to absorb all the power produced and therefore mini-grids is the solution for now,” she added.

Kenya, East Africa’s largest economy, has recently been losing mega investments to Tanzania, including a crude pipeline deal with Uganda.

Hawataki Tano Tena??? ama they refused to pay UhuRuto half the money in kickbacks? Wacha waende hapa ni shida tupu with this Tumbilee clowns

[gashwin]

@ScotlandYard

Excess power ? Energy access in Kenya only stands at 50% my friend. How do consumers pay for electricity not used? Plus this is a private entity that would be selling to the distributor and grid owner i.e Kenya Power.

You, my friend, are the one who needs a little more homework. We already have installed production capacity for more than we can consume . that’s why government has been in a race to connect more homes - though you and RAT dismiss it as JP propaganda. We need to be strategic in the guarantees we give.
We could have connected 2000 more homes since August kama si ujinga…
P/s @kirgit hukuambia huyu jamaa poa, we need him.

[ScotlandYard]

@Shaaban

True…but we already have a 310-megawatt Lake Turkana Wind Power in northern Kenya which is set for completion in July at a cost of Sh70 billion, and that will match the demand Kenya needs now…before embarking on further projects like the Malindi one

Friend,Kenya needs 1Trn + investment in clean energy over the next 10 years for us to be fully self-sufficient and power the industrialization dream. That will not be realized by frustrating foreign investment in the sector.

Here’s what Ethiopia is doing,in two years time they’ll be producing 17,000MW of power.

http://www.ena.gov.et/en/index.php/economy/item/3064-ethiopia-to-produce-17-000-mw-of-electric-power-by-2020

[ScotlandYard]

@GeorginaMakena

Hawataki Tano Tena??? ama they refused to pay UhuRuto half the money in kickbacks? Wacha waende hapa ni shida tupu with this Tumbilee clowns

Walikataa kulipa 10pc in consultancy fees to Keter and Cronies.

[system]

@ScotlandYard

Walikataa kulipa 10pc in consultancy fees to Keter and Cronies.

Well hell! Magufuli wont change them any % so about time they go. Kenya is a kiosk of UhuRuto. They must directly benefit from every last deal going down in Kenya. Even after paying the 10% haingeishia hapo. Ni kama kubribe kanjo ama traffic .They keep coming back. Wacha waende.

[Grundy]

@uraman

Currently we are producing more than the demand. That project would have been a redundant.
I think tanzania need that project than kenya, but they have to be careful not to have surplus coz that can lead to higher tariffs.

Is this really true. Are you sure we are producing more than our demand?

[Slim_fit]

waliitisha chai mingi i guess. You don’t just walk in to sheria house as a foreigner and register your crap or dream to set up shop without scratching some backs first.

[AMB_Sunday]

Good. Middle finger to Kenyans as usual

[system]

In short.they did not want/could not afford to bribe the kikuyu and kalenjin cartels at the ministry.
We have more expensive hfo power plants but their provision is there bcoz they bribe these rapacious bastards.

[gashwin]

@AMB_Sunday

Good. Middle finger to Kenyans as usual

Green energy sounds romantic but it is also unreliable/unstable. Furthermore the investor is asking the taxpayer to guarantee to pay for the power KPC will not be able to absorb. Already Turkan Windfarm is demanding for production we can’t absorb because another investor has not completed the TX line.

[Grundy]

@gashwin

Green energy sounds romantic but it is also unreliable/unstable. Furthermore the investor is asking the taxpayer to guarantee to pay for the power KPC will not be able to absorb. Already Turkan Windfarm is demanding for production we can’t absorb because another investor has not completed the TX line.

Even if you support Kenyatta, I can’t believe sycophancy has gotten this bad!!! Green energy is unreliable/unstable? My God!!

@gashwin

We already have installed production capacity for more than we can consume . that’s why government has been in a race to connect more homes - though you and RAT dismiss it as JP propaganda.
We could have connected 2000 more homes since August kama si ujinga…
P/s @kirgit hukuambia huyu jamaa poa, we need him.

We, we , we…I thought you were a teacher with a meager salary, when did you start connecting power to homes? This is the real sadness of life.

[GERALD9949]

@ScotlandYard

Excess power ? Energy access in Kenya only stands at 50% my friend. How do consumers pay for electricity not used? Plus this is a private entity that would be selling to the distributor and grid owner i.e Kenya Power.

Even if we were connected 100% our Per capita electricity consumption is…pathetic.
The typical Kenyan Household in Rural Kenya generally does not consume more than sh 500 worth of power(tThey represent 70% of consumers mind you) and that of Urban Kenya averages sh 2000, and that is the high mark.
A typical European or American Household is an electricity guzzler, with washing machines, Clothes Dryers, multiple televisions, giant fridges, house heating systems in Northerly countries and cooling systems in places like Florida.
This is why Industry alone, despite it being concentrated in four places(Nairobi,Mombasa,Thika,Athi River) accounts for half of the power consumed (and SMEs account for around 25%. Domestic consumers account for barely a quarter) and why Nairobi alone accounts for 45% of Kenya’s electricity consumption.
We do not consume electricity, even when we have it.The only way we can remedy this is to build houses that can accomodate some of these gadgets(For Example, a house in BuruBuru, huwezi weka Washing Machine ndani ya Nyumba, In fact, only Mombasa do we have the majority of dwellings large enough to do so.Nairobi even places like Parklands, houses are tiny), lower the electricity tariff to around sh 12 cents per kWh and upgrade the grid in some places(I find it funny that Nairobi’s Eastlands power grid fails due to too many people using it just to watch TV and iron clothes.Mombasa also has a grid problem ditto Western and Nyanza)

[GERALD9949]

@mjadhe kitombi reloaded

In short.they did not want/could not afford to bribe the kikuyu and kalenjin cartels at the ministry.
We have more expensive hfo power plants but their provision is there bcoz they bribe these rapacious bastards.

There are no Kikuyu and Kalenjin cartels at the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum. If there is one, then it is multi-tribal, given the ones who makes such decisions are drawn from all over the country.

[Grundy]

@GERALD9949

Even if we were connected 100% our Per capita electricity consumption is…pathetic.
The typical Kenyan Household in Rural Kenya generally does not consume more than sh 500 worth of power(tThey represent 70% of consumers mind you) and that of Urban Kenya averages sh 2000, and that is the high mark.
A typical European or American Household is an electricity guzzler, with washing machines, Clothes Dryers, multiple televisions, giant fridges, house heating systems in Northerly countries and cooling systems in places like Florida.
This is why Industry alone, despite it being concentrated in four places(Nairobi,Mombasa,Thika,Athi River) accounts for half of the power consumed (and SMEs account for around 25%. Domestic consumers account for barely a quarter) and why Nairobi alone accounts for 45% of Kenya’s electricity consumption.
We do not consume electricity, even when we have it.The only way we can remedy this is to build houses that can accomodate some of these gadgets(For Example, a house in BuruBuru, huwezi weka Washing Machine ndani ya Nyumba, In fact, only Mombasa do we have the majority of dwellings large enough to do so.Nairobi even places like Parklands, houses are tiny), lower the electricity tariff to around sh 12 cents per kWh and upgrade the grid in some places(I find it funny that Nairobi’s Eastlands power grid fails due to too many people using it just to watch TV and iron clothes.Mombasa also has a grid problem ditto Western and Nyanza)

Shallow thinking. We should look for ways to generate sustainable cheap power mainly for industries. We want our country to be industrialized and one of the greatest barrier to this is that our electricity is very expensive.