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    "id": 1287109,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1287109/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Chirchir",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Energy and Petroleum",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, and hon. Members. The actions the Ministry has taken to address the issue involve the purchase of power fluctuations stabilizer machine by LTWP at a significantly inflated price. The dynamic reactive power compensator was not part of the initial design when the type of 7.2 cents Euros per kilowatt hour was agreed. What we are calling the dynamic reactive power compensator is a voltage stabilizer. It is what you normally hear us refer to as satcoms when we are looking for budget. The intermittence in wind and solar requires managing the intermittence of power. Therefore, we needed this dynamic reactive power compensator that was purchased by Lake Turkana wind project. The cost of the equipment was basically amortized by allowing 0.3 cents per kilowatt hour; 0.03 cents per kilowatt hour to be built into the initial agreed 7.2 cents to get the tariff of the Lake Turkana wind project to 7.52 cents per kilowatt hour. That is how the equipment is amortized through the tariffs as we pay for the power delivered by Lake Turkana. We built in 0.03cents into the initially agreed tariff to be able to amortize that equipment which helps us quite a bit in managing the voltage intermittence and the challenges like the one we saw recently when we had a 19-hour blackout in the country. I beg to stop there."
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