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    "id": 629601,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/629601/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "If you look at Kenya’s land mass on paper, our energy sources from solar alone ought to be much more. It is probably even enough to feed the whole of Africa. If you were to consider that land mass on a given day when the sun is up and rising, every square kilometre of the surface of Kenya potentially can give you 1 kilowatt of power. That is over 100,000 gigawatts of power, which is humongous. It is almost like a nuclear type of energy. Then we have to ask why there is disconnect considering that our total production currently is still well below the expected amount. We have a potential of solar alone of well over 100,000 gigawatts at certain times of the day and yet our total production of electricity right now still stands at below 3 gigawatts or 0.003 per cent of the solar potential alone. If you look at our investments over the first 50 years of our Independence, they were so dismal to an extent that we were able to produce just over 1.5 gigawatts of electricity."
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