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Schneider Electric has unveiled its Kenya-made ‘Villaya Emergency’, a containerized mobile solar microgrid solution designed to be easy to use in any humanitarian emergency. The kit manufactured in Kenya is a system that generates at least 10-kilowatt peak electricity enough to power a village, health center or individual / group areas in refugee camps. The […]
Kenyan Telecommunications giant Safaricom is eyeing the electricity market following the enactment of a law that opened up power retail market to individuals and private companies. Earlier this month, Kenya has overhauled the regulatory framework of the energy and petroleum sectors with the enactment of two laws that put emphasis on increasing electricity connectivity. With […]
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Thursday pledged to achieve at least 10 per cent forest cover in the next three years. Speaking at the opening ceremony of the third annual One Planet Summit, President Uhuru Kenyatta indicated that his government has identified the forestry sector as a key investment to hitting its development targets. “Our […]
French President Emmanuel Macron who is touring East Africa, with stops in Djibouti, Ethiopia and Kenya, has pledged to invest $2.8 billion in Africa by financing and supporting startups and small- to – medium-sized enterprises by 2022. Macron, who started his trip to East Africa Monday, said the French government would support about 10,000 enterprises […]
President Emmanuel Macron of France Wednesday vowed to establish security and environment cooperation between his country and Kenya as he kicked off the third and last leg of his East African tour that brought him to Djibouti and Ethiopia. “We want to improve cooperation in the region from the security and defense point of view,” […]
The Johannesburg Securities Exchange (JSE)-listed AEP Energy will convert the two diesel-fired Nairobi power plants it’s acquiring from Iberafrica to gas-fired generators whose electricity is cleaner and cheaper, the company said. The South African giant is buying out Spanish company Naturgy Energy Group, which held 100 per cent shareholding in the Iberafrica diesel plants […]
President Emmanuel Macron of France kicked off Monday a four-day tour in Eastern Africa with the first leg in Djibouti followed by Ethiopia and Kenya where the French leader will co-chair UN-sponsored One Planet Summit. The trip to Djibouti, a French former colony, is the first in a decade by a French President after Sarkozy […]
Households in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Ethiopia will have better access to electricity through the construction of the Kenya-Ethiopia electricity interconnection line, Ecofin news agency reported. The interconnection will be ensured by a 1068-km, 500-kilovolt high-voltage direct current transmission line, with 437 km in Ethiopia and 631 km in Kenya with related facilities at Wolayta-Sodo […]
Kenya has halted diplomatic relations with Somalia after a row over oil and gas blocks spiraled out into conflict. Nairobi expelled Somalia’s ambassador on Saturday and called back its own representative in Mogadishu. Officials in Kenya said the Somalian Government’s decision to auction off oil and gas blocks in Kenya’s maritime territorial area that borders […]
Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) has signed an agreement to provide geothermal drilling services to state-run Ethiopian Electric Power (EEP). According to EEP CEO, Dr. Abraham Belay, Ethiopia had tried to venture into geothermal development as far back as 1981 but was yet to make a commercial breakthrough. The country has some geothermal drilling rigs […]