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"speaker_name": "Hon. Davis Chirchir",
"speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Energy and Petroleum",
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"content": " Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. Sen. Chute, thank you for the compliments, we are at your service. If there are issues that we can deal with one by one, we will be happy to do so because we have one goal, to build this country together. Let me answer the second question on what we are doing or what KenGen is doing to better service the Loiyangalani or the constituency from which we draw 310 megawatts of wind, the biggest power plant in Africa on wind, and yet the people of Loiyangalani see the power being evacuated by those enormous transmission lines through the five counties into Suswa to the significant load centres. Under the last mile connectivity, and we appreciate the kind of funding that Parliament gives us to support the social aspect of the distribution of power, we recognise that we need to service the residents of this area. There is a project which Sen. Chute must be aware of. We are building a high-voltage line from Loyangalani to Marsabit and from Marsabit to Isiolo."
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"speaker_name": "Hon. Davis Chirchir",
"speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Energy and Petroleum",
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"content": "The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"speaker_name": "Hon. Davis Chirchir",
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"content": "When we came into office that project had been processed together with the Gilgil-Thika-Malaa and payments had been made for the counterpart funding to support the foreign side which was coming from the Export-Import Bank of China (EXIM). The payment was not enough so immediately we descope the two projects: the Loyangalani- Marsabit-Isiolo from Gilgil-Thika-Malaa. This meant that we could take Gilgil-Thika- Malaa on to a Public Private Partnership (PPP) the one I talked about- and it is advancing well. The Loyangalani-Marsabit-Isiolo then remained with the payment which represents 15 percent of the payment required as counterpart funding so that we can draw the EXIM funds and build that line. We are further descoping that project to ensure that as we build it, we can step down from 400 kilovolts (kV) to 132kV and 66kV and service that community. As we go to Isiolo we can step down from 400kV through the descoping and ensure we service the people Marsabit County as the line comes down. It is at an advanced stage. The descoping work is going on through EXIM. In principle, we are done on the Kenyan part and payment has been made. We should be seeing it as soon as we are done with our partners, China EXIM, and the line contractor going to the site because payment has already been made on the counterpart Kenya portion. As soon as we finish with China EXIM, we will not only see the big lines being built but the step down from those high voltages to those that feed the communities coming out. For the first time, together with the last mile, we shall see Loyangalani- Marsabit on the grid coming down to Isiolo where we have the 132kV line. Hon. Members we would be happy to see that region on the grid because Marsabit County is rich in wind and solar resources. As we pull the resources to the significant industry or load centers, we will be serving the communities coupled with the last mile programmes where you fund us, as Parliament. Regarding the first Question on compensation, when we have a major blackout that impacts the whole country, the point would be to establish the cause and apportion the blame. That is why you hear me reading up to the millisecond when the event occurred in order to find out whether the private investor power plant in Lake Turkana went out first and caused the problem or was it caused by the Juja Substation 220kV which came in 100 milliseconds later. That work is going on. However, hon. Members when we have a blackout it is so significant in terms of losses for the country. As I said, when we have a company like the Kenya Power where we are restructuring its balance sheet--- Kenya Power stops all the Independent Power Producers (IPP)s in terms of the partial risk guarantees that support power generation for Kenya. Unlike the banks, if one goes down, the others shall still be there. We need to take care of Kenya Power even as we go from one market player to an open market where we shall be allowing generators to produce power and wheel it to markets or load centers using the wheeling policy, which is shortly being gazetted for purposes of allowing multiple players in the industry. An unbundled market means that you should be able to generate your own power in a power plant and get Kenya Electricity Transmission Company Limited (KETRACO) to wheel it to market for you and sell it to industry, whenever you want to sell in the"
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"speaker_name": "Hon. Davis Chirchir",
"speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Energy and Petroleum",
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"content": "The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"speaker_name": "Hon. Davis Chirchir",
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"content": "country. That then removes Kenya Power from being required to transmit and reticulate. The unbundling is a significant aspect of what we have done in opening up of the market, so that we then move from a one-market buyer; where Kenya Power buys all the energy and distributes to an open market to where anybody can generate and use KETRACO to wheel the power to market and sell it to industry. A lot of work is still going on with the compensation space, including determining how much we can compensate when there is something like a national disaster or major accident. Challenges where Kenya Power is culpable such as a cabling problem or a transformer issue do not present a problem in compensation, and we do so from time to time. However, when we have a national challenge like when the whole network goes out because of something close to a national disaster, it becomes challenging to say who should compensate because we would certainly be closing down a company that we need to support the rest of the economy. We need to pay attention to the compensation space. Compensation does happen where the faults are very specific and pertain to what was avoidable to the extent that Kenya Power would compensate the affected families and businesses. How do we then compensate if it is a national challenge; which if costed the entire company could go under and therefore cause a challenge for the entire country? I thank you."
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"speaker_name": "Sen. Wakili Sigei",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Cabinet Secretary. I will now allow Members to ask supplementary Questions. I will start with Sen. Faki."
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"content": "Asante Bw. Spika wa Muda. Swali langu ni kuhusu kupotea kwa umeme katika Kaunti ya Mombasa haswa wakati huu wa mwezi mtukufu wa Ramadhan. Limekuwa jambo la kawaida umeme kupotea mara kwa mara katika Kaunti ya Mombasa na maeneo ya karibu haswa tunapokuwa tunafanya ibada za usiku. Wengi wanashindwa kuhudhuria ibaada hizo kwa sababu ya ukosefu wa umeme na vile vile kiusalama si rahisi mtu kutoka nyumbani ikiwa mataa barabarani yamezimika kwa sababu ya ukosefu wa umeme. Je, waziri ana mipango gani ya kuhakikisha kuwa kwa siku 14 ambazo zimebaki za mwezi huu mtukufu tutakuwa na umeme na sio katika Kaunti ya Mombasa pekee, lakini nchi nzima ili waisilamu wapate uwezo wa kumuomba Mungu wao bila matatizo yeyote? Asante."
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"speaker_name": "Sen. Wakili Sigei",
"speaker_title": "The Temporary Speaker",
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"content": " Proceed, Cabinet Secretary."
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"speaker_name": "Hon. Davis Chirchir",
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"content": " Asante Sen. Faki. Mombasa Kaunti inatoa umeme wake kutoka kwa thermal. That is where we have most of the thermal power plants. The other generated power inayotumika sana Mombasa ni ile inayotoka Malindi kwa Solar Power Plant. We have a solar power plant ambayo inamilikiwa na kampuni inayoitwa Globeleq which is an IPP. It feeds 52 Megawatts peak (MWp) to the grid. Pia moto mingi inayotumika Kaunti ya Mombasa inatoka Olkaria Geothermal Plant. Kuna cascade line ya awali ya Kamburu inayoenda Mombasa but majorly geothermal inatoka Olkaria. Tumeshajenga laini ile na inabebea 400kV lakini currently"
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"speaker_name": "Hon. Davis Chirchir",
"speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Energy and Petroleum",
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"content": "The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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