On Saturday, we reported that a leaked draft of Energy Secretary Rick Perry’s grid study obtained by Bloomberg debunks his attack on renewable energy. Think Progress has now obtained a copy of that draft, and it has many more surprises — or, rather, findings that are fairly
It has been hailed as one of the oldest and best preserved ‘Swahili settlements in the world, a site of cultural exchange with European, Persian and Indian Cultures for over 700 years’ through Indian Ocean trade exchanges. It is Lamu, one of East Africa’s UNESCO heritage
The Sh200 billion Lamu coal-fired power plant will cause massive environmental damages and deadly respiratory and other diseases, experts have warned. Health and environment experts warned the project will cause irreparable damages. They spoke at Laico Regency Hotel, Nairobi, on Friday during a public forum
Clean energy has become the buzzword for fighting the increasing threat posed by global warming. There is an urgent need to contain the rising temperatures before they increase by a fatal 2⁰C. Indeed, countries at the COP 21 in Paris, France put a ceiling to this
Chair Sam Bickersteth @SamBickersteth – CEO, Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) Speakers Neil Bird – Senior Research Fellow, ODI Shehnaaz Moussa – Director, SouthSouthNorth (SSN) Margaret Kamau – Independent strategic consultant Claire Monkhouse @monkhouseclaire – Manager, Sustainability and Climate Change, Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC) Description In December 2015,
Things are not looking good for the coal industry. In the latest blow to this fossil fuel, the world’s biggest coal company is closing a total of 37 mines. It seems that the rise of solar power is playing a major role in the decline
“Carbon capture and sequestration does not work. It’s a pseudonym for ‘no coal,’” the CEO of Murray Energy, the country’s largest privately held coal-mining company, told E&E News. Carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), also called carbon capture and storage, is the process of trapping carbon dioxide
Friday 14th July, 2017 | Laico Regency, Nairobi | 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm | Free Entry The Government of Kenya in conjunction with a private partner has proposed to construct a 1,050 Megawatt coal-fired power plant in Kwasasi, Lamu County. Given the magnitude of
we examine the main challenges of investing in the power industry in Kenya before reviewing the opportunities that are also available to investors. Challenges Power Infrastructure Kenya’s demand for electricity should rise at an annual average of 7.9% over the next decade. Despite Kenya’s positive
Besides politics, never before has a matter elicited so much emotion and opposition in the county as the proposed 1050MW initiative. Locals and a number of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have petitioned the Government to stop the construction of the Lamu coal plant, citing harmful environmental