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    "id": 189505,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/189505/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Keter",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Energy",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 169,
        "legal_name": "Charles Cheruiyot Keter",
        "slug": "charles-keter"
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) The current peak electricity demand is 1,049 megawatts, while the peak generation capacity, excluding the emergency capacity, is 1,074 megawatts. The emergency is 146 megawatts. The peak demand is expected to grow by 6.5 per cent during the 2008/2009 Financial Year, and by 7 per cent thereafter. (b) A total of 212 megawatts of new generation capacity will be commissioned within the next two years, while completion of the upgrading work at Kiambere Power Station by March, 2009, will add an additional 20 megawatts of new generation capacity and restore a further 72 megawatts, which is decommissioned at the moment. The new generation plants to be commissioned are as follows:- (i) The Orpower Geothermal - 35 megawatts. (ii) Mumias Baggase - 26 megawatts. (iii) Iberafrica - 53 megawatts. (iv) The ABWSC Consortium - 88.6 megawatts. (v) The Tana Power Station Redevelopment - 10 megawatts. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the existing 100 megawatts emergency power will be retired by December, 2009. The demand is expected to reach 1,200 megawatts by 2010, while the peak generation capacity will then be 1,378 megawatts. This capacity will provide a reserve margin of about 15 per cent, which is larger than the largest generation in the system. Mr. Speaker, Sir, emergency power will only be introduced in case of unforeseen hydrological conditions likely to negatively impact on generation capacity. Therefore, I can comfortably say that the peak capacity will be okay."
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