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"speaker_name": "Mr. Keter",
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"content": " Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this chance to respond to the Motion. I want to say from the outset that as a Ministry, we support this Motion. I say so, because, as I speak my Minister is at the Kenya Institute of Administration (KIA), meeting the 57 tea factories to discuss the way forward in establishing small hydro-power stations to assist them. Therefore, it is, indeed, desirous for the Ministry to promote renewable energy technologies. In this regard, we are considering prioritising the setting up of small hydro- electric power projects. For so many years, the Ministryâs focus was on major hydro- electric power projects such as Turkwel Gorge, Masinga and Sondu Miriu, which, in essence, are very expensive. For instance, the newly commissioned Sondu Miriu Project cost the Government about Kshs15 billion, and it generates about 60 megawatts. Therefore, the establishment of small hydro-electric power plants will come in handy. In this regard, we have established feeding tariff, whereby we invite private investors to either partner with KenGen or the Ministry, do it on their own, or partner with local authorities, so that they can establish small hydro-electric plants and other small electric generation plants like those that use wind, et cetera . Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, we have given them feeding tariffs of between zero and 50 megawatts. If you can develop it, you sign an agreement of 20-25 years with the Kenya Power and Lighting Company for the supply. For instance, the Mumias Sugar Company plant, for 21 megawatts it uses biogas. It is a joint project between the Ministry and Mumias Sugar Company; it will go a long way in assisting this country, in the sense that our factories will reduce the cost of energy to them."
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