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    "id": 139266,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/139266/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Murungi",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Energy",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 93,
        "legal_name": "Kiraitu Murungi",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, our current installed capacity is 1291 megawatts of which 146 megawatts is very expensive emergency power. Seven hundred and nineteen megawatts is hydro power. Due to the current drought, our combined hydro-electricity supply has been reduced by 46 per cent from 719 megawatts to 330 megawatts. To avoid countrywide blackouts that this country experienced in the year 2000, we have decided to introduce 140 megawatts of additional emergency power by October, 2009. It goes without saying that this will result in higher electricity costs. As we have said in the Ministry, the final solution to recurrent energy sector crisis lies in intensive and massive investment in the exploitation of our enormous geo-thermal reserves in the Rift Valley, which we estimate to be around 7,000 megawatts."
}