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    "id": 1398901,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1398901/?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": " Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. Hon. Members, regarding our plans for Wajir County to be supported through the Kenya Off-Grid Solar Access Project (KOSAP), we have received funding from a retiring Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) from Poland, which we are pitching for. We have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for that fund of US$200 million to come to Kenya to support the development of areas like Wajir. We are ready as Kenya and have submitted that document to the other side. We should be signing before the end of April to draw that funding. A lot of that fund will support the off-grid systems but mostly we are looking at how to connect Garissa on the grid to Wajir. There is also a programme of hybridization where Wajir is currently being served 100 per cent by diesel generators. We are putting in a solar plant which can run during the day and if there is intermittence, the batteries will be there to support it. The diesel engine can only come on if the solar is challenged when the batteries are not running well enough. We are doing similar projects in seven counties. One which we have commissioned, and the President participated in the commissioning is Wasini in Lunga"
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