Vincent Musyoka Musau

All parliamentary appearances

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• 25 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you hon. Speaker. The hon. Member for Molo Constituency hon. Macharia requested for a Statement from the Chair of the Committee on Energy, Communication and Information regarding the amount of money or resources invested by the Government to the Geothermal Development Company (GDC). The hon. Member felt that the power produced by the company to the national grid is lower than the optimal power expected for the resources invested. In particular, the Member wanted to know:- (i) The amount of money that the Government has invested in the company. (ii) How many megawatts the company produces to the national ... view
• 25 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: Yes, I will summarize. I have a response signed by the Principal Secretary. It will just take about two minutes because it is summarized. It reads as follows:- I refer to the letter of April 17th, 2014 on the above subject in which hon. Jacob Macharia, Member of Parliament for Molo Constituency, requested for a Ministerial Statement on the amount of money or resources which has been invested by the Government in Geothermal Development Company. I hereby attach a copy of the response letter from the Managing Director, GDC. The summary of the response is as follows:- (i) On the ... view
• 25 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: Yes, I will summarize. I have a response signed by the Principal Secretary. It will just take about two minutes because it is summarized. It reads as follows:- I refer to the letter of April 17th, 2014 on the above subject in which hon. Jacob Macharia, Member of Parliament for Molo Constituency, requested for a Ministerial Statement on the amount of money or resources which has been invested by the Government in Geothermal Development Company. I hereby attach a copy of the response letter from the Managing Director, GDC. The summary of the response is as follows:- (i) On the ... view
• 25 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: (iv) Lastly, on the recruitment policy strategy of the company, GDC is an equal opportunity employer and recruits personnel on the basis of professional and academic qualifications, merit and ability to contribute to the achievement of its objectives. The company has almost achieved gender parity as it is at 71 per cent male and 28.3 female, respectively. I beg to table the Report. view
• 25 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: (iv) Lastly, on the recruitment policy strategy of the company, GDC is an equal opportunity employer and recruits personnel on the basis of professional and academic qualifications, merit and ability to contribute to the achievement of its objectives. The company has almost achieved gender parity as it is at 71 per cent male and 28.3 female, respectively. I beg to table the Report. view
• 25 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, Deputy Speaker. First of all, the Committee could only respond to a request by the Member. Some of the issues that the Member is talking about were never part of what he requested. That is because the request was straightforward. However, I will address some of the concerns that the Member and other Members have raised. The GDC was established to mitigate or remove the risk that made independent power producers not to have interest to invest in geothermal power. So, there is a lot of risk in geothermal drilling, which is a process. You start with exploration ... view
• 25 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, Deputy Speaker. First of all, the Committee could only respond to a request by the Member. Some of the issues that the Member is talking about were never part of what he requested. That is because the request was straightforward. However, I will address some of the concerns that the Member and other Members have raised. The GDC was established to mitigate or remove the risk that made independent power producers not to have interest to invest in geothermal power. So, there is a lot of risk in geothermal drilling, which is a process. You start with exploration ... view
• 25 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: Why the investment in geothermal would seem a concern to some of the Members is that the company has only been able to get probably 400 megawatts. Part of the process is to do with what we call “appraisal drilling”. When you strike a dry well, it does not mean that you are not doing the right thing. It is expected that you will strike a dry well so that you can establish what we call the “production field”. view
• 25 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: Why the investment in geothermal would seem a concern to some of the Members is that the company has only been able to get probably 400 megawatts. Part of the process is to do with what we call “appraisal drilling”. When you strike a dry well, it does not mean that you are not doing the right thing. It is expected that you will strike a dry well so that you can establish what we call the “production field”. view
• 25 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: So, the money that has been given to GDC has not been meant specially to drill wells. It has been used to invest on the assets, infrastructure and buy machinery that will be used many times in drilling geothermal wells. If you look at what the GDC has been doing for the last couple of years, we have moved from dry wells to wells that are striking, maybe, 5 megawatts. Now, we are striking 10 megawatts. Since the GDC has already established that there is power in Menengai and has done appraisal drilling, we expect it to give us more ... view