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    "id": 1398885,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1398885/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Davis Chirchir",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Energy and Petroleum",
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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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