Kenya on track to reach energy self-sufficiency
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- Kenya is stepping up its efforts to reach total energy self-sufficiency by 2030.
The country already gets 90 percent of its electricity from natural sources, including solar power, and has the largest wind power facility in Africa.
Al Jazeera's @Catherine Soi reports from Marsabit, Kenya.
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Many African countries are more forward thinking than their counterparts around the world but political instability, corruption and bad media have affected the images of Africa and Africans around the world. Hopeful for more development in Africa.
Build that bridge between the Diaspora
we must believe in Africa
we must invest in Africa
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Mashallah in support of our Kenyan Brothers…we need this in Yemen inshallah one day soon
Go Kenya 🇰🇪
🖐 Hello from neighboring Ethiopia 🇪🇹
African countries should lead the way towards a greener economy!!! The future has and will always be the motherland! 🌍 love and support from India 🇮🇳
Well done Kenya. Putting all the other “developed countries“ to shame! 🙏🌎🌱
We are doing what we can in UK! Blame Americans and Germans (for closing their absolutely decent nuclear power plants). In the UK we promised to do better, and we are really doing our best!
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Now Kenya has to get started to make electricity cheap enough so that people can rely on it for cooking, instead of using wood or charcoal. And increase production to not have any blackouts anymore.
There are many reasons we use charcoal for cooking. Like if you go to rural Kenya and tell them to stop using charcoal because of climate change they will laugh at you cause the charcoal makes the food sweeter as opposed to other means, they will only use gas and electricity in urban expat hotels
@@usejasiri 85% of indian houses now use gas and 70% use only gas . If offered easily available at reasonable costs people will definitely switch like they did in india
@@usejasiri that's a pure myth .Food tastes the same regardless of how its cooked.
@@pietrojenkins6901 there is a grain of truth to her claim..it's like roasting nyama choma with gas vs charcoal
@@bloggtalk5085 and you're absolutely right ,my barbeque tastes much better on charcoal.But regular food , naahhh.
Well done Kenya. Love from Sri Lanka.
Sounds like that breakthrough to pioneer the next prominent energy source may come from here. I look forward to it. Should it happen, it could flip the world on it's head. Though in all honesty, that would just be restoring Africa back to it's rightful place.
Hello
That's a blessing 🙏 GOOD FOR YOU KENYA
Kenya is doing great. I should leave more words but i am speachless.
I'm glad when I see this kind of positive news from my motherland on an international channel...love you kenya 🇰🇪 I'm so proud of you ❤ 😍 💖 ❣
Hello
Good news for Kenya!
This is great news.
Excellent. Good for them!
Great to see a country actually making an effort and 'getting on with it' instead of whining after handouts or saying, 'But the West used coal first, now it's our turn, and we're not going to go carbon free until some ridiculously distant date in the future!'
Nope, these guys (and gals) put their minds and muscle behind what they know is right.
Good work!
Hopefully, their efforts will embarrass wealthier, more privileged Western and manufacturing countries, driving them into action rather than just wasting words (which is pretty much all we get at these summit meetings).
Hmm I don’t think calling out the west for being the major contributor to climate change is whining. Especially, considering westerners are the ones shouting CLIMATE CHANGE but aren’t willing to do anything about it.
Good for them.
Kenya my homeland is number one when it comes to green energy. If we didn't have unstable governments and high levels of corruption most of the African countries could be far ahead
We have very high levels of corruption in the UK, and you can see that everything is just turning into a mess.
I think we are ok, it's just that we are not as good on media as the West
Well thats great news, i imagine theres less friction in less developed nations. When they’re as big as the U.S. theyll be further along as far as clean green tech
Green energy is wonderful
The problem isn't America's size. The problem is it's corruption by corporations and the wealthy who intentionally hold back positive change. Senator Manchin is a perfect example of a disgusting, selfish politician. He makes money off of the coal industry so he votes against any law that would reduce the use of coal.
@Bobb Grimley yea i also said theyll, so?
@@50jakecs right
@Bobb Grimley lol chill out dude take it easy 🙂
Congratulations to the Kenyans. Way to go. Ever think of contracting the people behind this to the USA? We got a bunch of NIMBY knuckleheads over here. :)
Awesome progress and goodwill by the Kenya government.
I think I missed something. What's the specific problems preventing the wind energy getting to the towns?
Infrastructure to evacuate the power from those remote parts of our country to towns and cities.
im surprised because we enjoy power in nairobi from that same wind plant which is 700km away. how can a town just a few km not get any? im sure marsabit is connected to the grid. i even saw electricity poles behind the reporter
@@TheTororist Marsabit is not yet on the national grid. Only Garissa is connected to the national grid (Kindaruma-Mwingi-Garissa). Wajir town and Marsabit towns are currently being supplied by off-grid diesel power plants.
@@saimzmuiruri never knew we had those
@@TheTororist Power from the wind farm is taken straight to Nairobi through the high voltage lines.
Meanwhile, the US is still debating on fracking and oil exploration in the Arctic
The US is gonna be so jealous
The US doesn’t care they still want to kill the earth for profits and the humans that live on that land as soon as possible.
@@CL-hf2fb tinfoil hat user spotted
Love how CZcams deleted my comment or the user Bc they know it’s true.
Hallelujah…please do!
You can achieve your goals. Stay at it💯💯💯❤️❤️❤️
Dang fine!
Mashaallah
This is a great start. Something to look out for would be industrial interests which seek to use the cheap energy to set up their factories and may end up taking over the region and turning it into something completely different than what the locals want or intend. Greedy and selfish powers often try to turn a good thing into something negative and that should be kept in mind, but besides that, this could be the start of something great.
African countries have an opportunity to skip fossil fuel driven economy and do it right way with more prosperous future. Don’t get hooked on addictive substances and be like rest of the world waiting on cartels to decide how much will price their poison.
Where do they get the funds? My country is a lot richer and we do not bother to pursue any mass renewable energy production yet. It's truly regretable.
Renewable energy pays for itself. The question is, where do they get the political will?
We're rich bro exporting goods to other African, Asian and western countries.
A $100b economy doest have funds? Kenya is no 4 globally in geothermal power and 1 in africa
@@sizor3ds Believe it or not, our last 2 Kenyan governments have had the best of intentions for Kenyan people. Put aside all the negative propaganda the western media has portrayed, and corruption aside for a second.. our government is actually very serious about development issues. That's where the political will comes from. The funny thing is, Kenya is not even as endowed with natural resources in the same way many African countries are, yet we have made greater strides.
Yall need to talk about Ecosia they are a search engine that plants tress
Kenya should invest in solar on a much larger scale like Morocco did. Morocco has invested $9 in solar power.
Only $9?
@@abdimajidmohamed1463 Haha
@@JamesRuga bana? Hiyo haifiki hata thao
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Better than nuclear power
What’s wrong with nuclear energy?
Nuclear energy is extremely good
@@tmd-w1552 yes it is no doubt but what if the waste we seem to have no solution to it not even the developed countries have a solution to it yet all solution as short term but in the long run this will undermine the global efforts towards climate change
@@the.colonel2287 U just put it deep underground and Nuclear technology has come a long away we have found numerous ways not only to limit the amount of waste but to also re use it again
@@tmd-w1552 many environmental groups will not agree with you on this yes technology has come along way but putting it deep underground is not a permanent solution as civilization evolves
Save Our Planet
Then why do we still have blackouts and high kplc rates? 🤔 serikali hii ya urongo tuu, baba Jayden asidanganye ulimwengu.
Model for the rest of Africa
Not really, some of us like Botswana. We don't have a option for hydroelectric energy. Wind and solar are not reliable enough to be totally reliant on them, that leaves us with coal energy as our baseline energy.
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Are you on drugs
What did somalis do to you? Why so bitter
wind is free...unlimited.
Next step process the rare materials and produce batteries and electric cars
We might have our own economic problems which can be solved but you won't realize how developed and beautiful Kenya is until you travel places even in developed countries where most of us come just for the DOLLAR nothing else
It's all vibes until KPLC enters the chat...
Those guys need competition to stop fooling around with our money
I left my lights on all night yesterday (feel guilty).
You should... Let's conserve it
Eccept for poor SA!!! They can only increase electicity tarrifs provided by Eskom!!!!
As a Kenyan, SA's power issues are a mystery to me! I don't understand how an African country with the infrastructural head start that you guys had/have is going through the power issues that you're facing. Kenya experienced SA's load shedding-type of frequent blackouts in the 90s and early 2000s because back then we were heavily reliant on hydro electric power, and our country had gone through several bouts of drought. Your economy is several times larger than ours so you should actually be leading with this green energy production and supply because you have the resources to do so 🤔
This is news for international audiences we Kenyans know better..
Who are kenyans in your context?
but there was no lie in this clip…or what exactly are you referring to?
@@Mimi-nr6jx No lie? Kenya imports some $2B per year of petroleum or refined petroleum for transportation and electricity production.
Kenya has some 2500 MW of electric power production, about 1/3 hydro, 2/5 geothermal, 1/5 fossil fuel fired power, against a population of some 60M, about the same population as the UK. Yet the UK has 40X
more electric power, some 100,000 MW of electric capacity, enabling hospitals, schools, municipal clean water, factories, refrigeration. Kenyan hydro and geothermal is great, but there will little or no increase of either. There are no new river valleys.
The video title “on track to reach energy self-sufficiency” is a lie, furthered by you. Like everyone else making fairy tale energy claims, what happens instead is an increasing dependence on imported fossil fuels as the population grows.
@@kelvinmwenda9556 your mother and i.. You can be Japanese..
EIA report on Kenta:
“The vast majority of the population, particularly in rural areas, relies on traditional biomass and waste (typically consisting of wood, charcoal, manure, and crop residues) for household heating and cooking.”
When most of the people are burning wood and dung, it’s beyond disingenuous to throw up a video saying people are throwing up some personal solar panels to enter modernity. Stop encouraging energy poverty and let these people obtain a real, reliable modern grid.
But many rural homes, especially those not connected to the grid, do use solar for electricity. Ever heard of M-Kopa Solar?
@@Mimi-nr6jx There’s no “but” when it comes to energy poverty.
“Use-solar” ie couple panels on the roof does not mean a home has the electric power it needs to enter modernity, run a refrigerator 24/7, run a washing machine that frees up women from hours everyday of hard manual labor. More importantly, some solar here and there won’t get people a hospital, pumped municipal clean water and sewer, street lights, grocery stores w frozen foods, factories, air conditioned offices in the tropics, schools that work in poor weather. Last, for those with wealth in rural no grids areas who have some solar, they always have diesel or gas generators hiding behind the curtain, making a home once dependent on wood fires now dependent on diesel fuel deliveries, another step backwards.
Hari Minggu.Tgl.16/1/2022/.Halim Talafuka,Allahumma Amiin.@$#.
We can build gravitation electric power stations with existing technologies we have today. It's quite easy by merging existing technologies we can build gravitation electric power stations for families globally.
NO NUKES NO GMO
It's not co2 it's not you it's the Sun everything is a cycle...
Am from Kenya. These mega projects yield gargantuan kickbacks which government officials love
People here praising kenya
And the way we are being harassed these last days with blackout all time
Kplc is just a joke even though government makes good investments to improve their business they still steal from us with electricity bills
It was you that vandalized the electricity pylon leading to the blackout,stop your thieving ways.
That's what happens when ur update ur grid systems
Vandalized by corrupt men in charge
@@decoloniz_afro indeed you are the exact opposite of your name.
There is no such thing as "green" or "clean" energy.
Wdym? Yeah everything is finite but would you want to live in a smoggy and smelly world or a world that is less polluted, renewable energy sources are a solution but it's not the only thing that needs to be done for a better future for everyone on this planet it's a start.
Kenya electricity very costly!!!
Let's hope when the wind mills break down, and they do frequently, the gov. can afford to repair them.
Just get a nuclear power plant ?
The problem with nuclear is it's expensive to build and even more expensive to dispose of the nuclear waste that needs to be safely stored away from anything living for thousands upon thousand of years.
@@50jakecs Exactly, these pro-nuclear people STILL don't have a plan on what to do with the nuclear waste. They said to bury it and store it then they say "recycle it" which they STILL don't know how to do efficiently. Nuclear still has major problems that they don't even know how to fix.
@@ramarodgers Russia?
@@ramarodgers Nope , we are not doing that at the moment.
@@emmettlester739 We've been successfully storing nuclear waste, harm free since the 1960's.
ati 90% .. wee wacheni uongo bana..
I'm wondering why they went for wind power.
Kenya has a coastline in the south but these wind turbines are in the north. When you're on the coast the wind power is stronger and more reliable and when you're away from the coast the solar power is more reliable. Also the north of Kenya is very sunny. Now a solar panel operates best when it doesn't get too hot, but if you're building a big project like this then you can have a solar power that doesn't rely on silicon panels, but uses mirrors to heat water and make steam.
If there are farms with animals then there will be animal poo (or human poo will also work). Why not use the poo to make electricity when it's dark and have a big solar power station for most of your power.
If I'm not wrong, most of Kenya's electricity is hydroelectric and geothermal...
The north of Kenya especially around lake turkana is actually very windy.
Is your country doing that..why don’t you lead the way
Wind power normally is a bit cheaper than solar.
It's due to physical geography. Northern Kenya has a much higher wind speed than any other part of Kenya.
We just need to pick honest contractors because most of them want money and do shoddy job halfway
The contractor who was supposed to connect the farm to the grid pocketed the money then left job halfway. All the turbines are spinning but they are not feeding to the grid. Corruption is the greatest challenge facing Kenya.
You are so wrong on this. The 600km 400kv line runs through seven counties from Loiyangalani to Suswa is live and is part of the national power mix serving Kenyans. The issue of a line to Marsabit is quite different, as the region is yet to come into the national grid.
Wind energy is not sustainable in the republic of Kenya. To date electricity is still imported from Uganda.
Kenya both imports and exports electricity to Uganda depending on issues of supply and demand also Kenya is currently producing more power than it can consume,
Yeah but its not Kenya is it? Its owned by china isn't it.
no, kenya i not owned by china any more than america is owned by japan. just because one country invests in another doesn't mean that country is owned by annother
Kenya Geothermal owned by KENGEN and funded by African Development Bank, and European Union. Turkana Wind power KENGEN and some danish and Finland companies. No Chinese.
Fake news