Aden Bare Duale

All parliamentary appearances

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• 11 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: Finally, the other entity you will find under part III is the Nuclear Power and Energy Agency, which again will be the successor of the current Kenya Nuclear Electricity Board. Part IV deals with renewable energy which is defined as a non-fossil energy generated from the natural land depleting resources, including but not limited to the use of solar energy, wind energy, biomass and biological waste energy, hydro energy, geothermal energy, the ocean, The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 11 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: and even tidal energy. All these are covered within the framework and the title of renewable energy. They are found in Part IV. view
• 11 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: The Renewable Energy Resource Advisory Committee under this Bill is established to advise the Cabinet Secretary (CS) for Energy on the criteria for the allocation of renewable energy resource areas and the licensing of these areas to investors. There are investors who will want to invest in wind, solar, hydro, biomass energy, geothermal. All these will fall under the new committee that will advise the CS. This committee is known as the Renewable Energy Resource Advisory Committee. Its advice to the CS is how these investors can access the various locations where these resources are found and how they are ... view
• 11 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: The Renewable Energy Resource Advisory Committee also provides for what we call the feed-in tariff and the energy auction system. Feed-in tariff is a case where an investor invests in one of the renewable energy resources available in our country and sells power to the Kenya Power. So, how you feed-in to the national grid and the tariff that you want to charge will be addressed by this Renewable Energy Resource Advisory Committee and, of course, the energy auction system. That includes the obligation, investors and private equity players. They must also operate within certain obligation licences in order to ... view
• 11 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: Part V of the Bill deals with coal exploration development. Coal has been defined to include many things: bituminous coal, sub-bituminous coal, lignite and many others. The whole of this part deals with how we use and develop coal in order to generate power. Part VI deals with electrical energy, how we have to provide for the licencing of electricity transmission and distribution. We have very many companies in the country owned wholly or substantially by the Government. The Kenya Electricity Generating Company Limited (KENGEN) is in generation; Kenya Electricity Transmission Company Limited (KETRACO) is in the business of transmission; ... view
• 11 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: and moves with it and erects it in the next 100 kilometres. Even herios have been connected with electricity. I was with the Cabinet Secretary (CS) of Energy and Petroleum last weekend. I do not know whether the Member for Mbalambala is here. We went to his constituency and 75 houses or herio huts were connected in a village called Bulakuro in Mbalambala, my former constituency. One elder told me: “I think the world is coming to an end in Somali land.” I asked him why and he said: “I never thought this can happen.” You can deny Uhuru Kenyatta ... view
• 11 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: Part IX deals with miscellaneous provisions. If you have the Bill, it is very voluminous. view
• 11 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: This House must be serious about local content. I am saying this because we must protect our local resources and businesses. I want to give an example. We have a very good working relationship with the Chinese Government. At the rate in which they are coming to our country and getting all the businesses, in ten years’ time, you will find them hawking in the streets of Nairobi and Mombasa. So, we must find a way of controlling and protecting the local content whether it is energy, infrastructure and even the companies. The threshold, in which a foreign company can ... view
• 11 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: If you go to some part of Nairobi, particularly on Kirinyaga road where our people own spare parts shops, you will find that the goods they are selling, a company in China is selling the same good in the streets at the same or even a lower price than them. So our people are closing business. So, the element of local content is very important. We do not want to turn our country into a place where other people are offloading their excess population. We are only 45 million people. There are countries with a billion plus people. So, they ... view
• 11 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: Finally as I finish, Part X deals with repeals of the Energy Act No. 12 of 2006 and Geothermal Resource Act No. 12 of 1982 .This is what we call the transitional clauses. There are certain laws that will become redundant in terms of the staff, assets and liabilities. I can see Hon. Keter. He was not around. He should get a copy of your Communication. He must have been told you have made certain communications. view