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    "id": 371824,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kinyua",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Weru Kinyua",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for your indulgence. I will make sure that I come with my card. I want to start by thanking Hon. David Bowen for bringing this Motion to this House. This Motion has come at a time when we, in the Jubilee Government, are finalizing our formative stages, so that we can get started. It is commonly said that you cannot do the same thing all the time and expect different results. It is high time we came up with different ways of doing things in the power sector, so that we can realize different results. If I may start with a bit of statistics, 15 per cent penetration has been converted to about 30 per cent, and is recorded by Kenya Power and other power sectors. This means that 70 per cent of this country is in need of power. This is the case, yet we want to get industrialized by 2030. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Ministry in charge of energy, Kenya Power and all the other companies that do connections like REA, should connect 300,000 people annually. We have said that we want to have 100 per cent connectivity by 2030. If we do 300,000 connections per year, that is a mere 3.5 per cent connection annually. With the current population growth of 3 per cent, the marginal increment of our power connectivity is only 0.75 per cent. Therefore, it will take us 93 years to get to 100 per cent connectivity. In fact, Vision 2030 will in essence become 2106. We need to do, at least, 7.11 per cent, so that we can achieve full connectivity in the 17 years that we have remaining. This calls for a different approach. To start with, we want to see Kenya Power develop a strategic plan that shows where and what is where. We also want to see Kenya Power develop a geospatial information system that clearly documents the distribution lines as they are, and the substations, so that we can determine the requirements that we need in terms of infrastructure for a 100 per cent penetration to be achieved. We can go to the second level and liberalize some of the areas once we have the strategic plan. These areas have to do with renewable energy, namely solar and wind power. With this, the liberalized areas will fall well within the strategic plan of the 100 per cent penetration by Kenya Power and the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum. What are the gains that will be achieved by liberalization? One, we will free Kenya Power, which seems to be a groping in the dark, with no clear way of dealing with issues of maintenance and operation. We will also have a benchmark. With no competition today against Kenya Power, it is their word against yours. They act as they are the benchmark while we act as their monitoring parameter."
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