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As Kenya bids to become a manufacturing economy, it is imperative that it boosts its national grid. But even as it moves to harness clean energy in the form of solar and wind power, it is also building a multi-billion-shilling coal plant. The Standard’s Kenneth Kipruto talked to energy and climate change expert Andreas Kraemer who is also the Founder and Director Emeritus of Ecologic Institute in Berlin, Germany, and Chairman of Ecologic Institute the US in Washington DC on Kenya’s options to generate cheap electricity.
Establishment of a manufacturing economy is one of President Uhuru Kenyatta’s Big Four agenda. What is the best way for Kenya to generate cheap power to meet its manufacturing demand?
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