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    "content": "The Government targets to provide affordable and competitive energy through the programme, and aims at generating additional 5,000 megawatts of power by the end of 2017. The Government has since 2013 been able to inject an additional 680 megawatts into the national grid. Some of the key projects targeted for the medium-term include 987 megawatts from the Lamu Coal Power Project, 300 megawatts from Turkana Wind Power Project and 300 megawatts from the Kitui Coal Project. The Committee is concerned about the pace of project execution in this sector. For example, the strategy to increase power production by 5,000 megawatts by 2017 has delayed and only 14 per cent completion has been achieved so far within the first three years. Sustained sectoral spending for employment creation is the third pillar under the 2016 BPS. Under this pillar, the Government plans to prioritize investment in research and extension services, agro-ecological zoning and re-organization of farmers into viable cluster groups for economies of scale, establish disease-free zone facilities in Bachuma, Kurawa and Miritini, finalize the procurement of Offshore Patrol Vessel (OPV), complete the fertilizer manufacturing plant in September 2016 and increase the acreage at the Galana-Kulalu Ranch Irrigation Project from the pilot of 10,000 acres to 100,000 acres."
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