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The plan aimed to increase the country’s installed electricity generating capacity by 5,000MW. In 2013, the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum unveiled an ambitious initiative to grow the capacity of electricity generated in the country from 1,600MW then to 6,600MW. This was supposed to take some 40 months, meaning additional capacity would have been in place early this year. The new capacity would have come from cheaper and cleaner sources such as geothermal and wind. This is, however, not likely to happen, with the ministry now saying that demand has not grown as per the initial expectations and hence slowed down on implementation of the plan. Energy Cabinet Secretary Charles Keter said having such huge capacity and in the absence of enough consumers would have resulted in the existing consumers shouldering the burden of paying to sustain the power stations which would have been rendered idle.  Read more at: Read original article here