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Kenya government unveils plan to assess energy consumption and demand

NAIROBI, KENYA: The Government Wednesday appeared to own up to the criticism that its ambitious plan to add another 5000MW of power to the national grid by 2016 could leave the country with more electricity than it needs.

The Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) and the Geothermal Development Company (GDC) as well as other independent power producers are currently undertaking initiatives to raise the country's installed capacity to slightly over 6,700 MW by 2016 from the current 1,664MW.

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