Kenya is stepping up its efforts to reach total energy self-sufficiency by 2030.
The country already gets 90 percent of its electricity from natural sources, including solar power, and has the largest wind power facility in Africa.
Al Jazeera’s @Catherine Soi reports from Marsabit, Kenya.
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Well thats great news, i imagine theres less friction in less developed nations. When they’re as big as the U.S. theyll be further along as far as clean green tech
Green energy is wonderful
The problem isn’t America’s size. The problem is it’s corruption by corporations and the wealthy who intentionally hold back positive change. Senator Manchin is a perfect example of a disgusting, selfish politician. He makes money off of the coal industry so he votes against any law that would reduce the use of coal.
“THERE’S.”
Many African countries are more forward thinking than their counterparts around the world but political instability, corruption and bad media have affected the images of Africa and Africans around the world. Hopeful for more development in Africa.
Build that bridge between the Diaspora
we must believe in Africa
we must invest in Africa
The US is gonna be so jealous
The US doesn’t care they still want to kill the earth for profits and the humans that live on that land as soon as possible.
@CL tinfoil hat user spotted
Love how YouTube deleted my comment or the user Bc they know it’s true.
Stop wearing masks
Good for them.
African countries should lead the way towards a greener economy!!! The future has and will always be the motherland! 🌍 love and support from India 🇮🇳
Sounds like that breakthrough to pioneer the next prominent energy source may come from here. I look forward to it. Should it happen, it could flip the world on it’s head. Though in all honesty, that would just be restoring Africa back to it’s rightful place.
I’m wondering why they went for wind power.
Kenya has a coastline in the south but these wind turbines are in the north. When you’re on the coast the wind power is stronger and more reliable and when you’re away from the coast the solar power is more reliable. Also the north of Kenya is very sunny. Now a solar panel operates best when it doesn’t get too hot, but if you’re building a big project like this then you can have a solar power that doesn’t rely on silicon panels, but uses mirrors to heat water and make steam.
If there are farms with animals then there will be animal poo (or human poo will also work). Why not use the poo to make electricity when it’s dark and have a big solar power station for most of your power.
Wind power normally is a bit cheaper than solar.
It’s due to physical geography. Northern Kenya has a much higher wind speed than any other part of Kenya.
Cross winds are quite high in the north and they run day and night.
A six year study was conducted showing that Marsabit was among the places in the world with the highest and most consistent wind speeds and that is why the project was sited there.
@Rodney Agesa I agree Marsabit cross winds are quite high. Even driving on the road to Marsabit is quite interesting to say the least. You cannot accelerate past a certain speed once the winds start blowing. The car swings side to side.
This is great news.
It’s not co2 it’s not you it’s the Sun everything is a cycle…
Now they just need to flood the place with electric vehicles
Then why do we still have blackouts and high kplc rates? 🤔 serikali hii ya urongo tuu, baba Jayden asidanganye ulimwengu.
They going to cause war now in Kenya just like Ethiopia
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Yall need to talk about Ecosia they are a search engine that plants tress
People here praising kenya
And the way we are being harassed these last days with blackout all time
Kplc is just a joke even though government makes good investments to improve their business they still steal from us with electricity bills
It was you that vandalized the electricity pylon leading to the blackout,stop your thieving ways.
NO NUKES NO GMO
It’s all vibes until KPLC enters the chat…
Those guys need competition to stop fooling around with our money
Better than nuclear power
kenya is building a nuclear power plant in the coast
What’s wrong with nuclear energy?
A shining example for other nations in the region and beyond. The African continent is a sleeping economic giant, with many of its resources being stripped bare by foreign powers.
Model for the rest of Africa
Not really, some of us like Botswana. We don’t have a option for hydroelectric energy. Wind and solar are not reliable enough to be totally reliant on them, that leaves us with coal energy as our baseline energy.
The Biggest wind farm in Africa is actually in Morocco …
Just get a nuclear power plant ?
@Rama Nope , we are not doing that at the moment.
@Austin Njagi why? What happened
@Emmett Lester We’ve been successfully storing nuclear waste, harm free since the 1960’s.
@Anthony Morris Storing it is not the point. It’s what to do with it. Clearly just storing it, and only storing it, is insanely idiotic.
@Emmett Lester If it can be safely stored, why is that a problem?
Hallelujah…please do!
Where do they get the funds? My country is a lot richer and we do not bother to pursue any mass renewable energy production yet. It’s truly regretable.
Renewable energy pays for itself. The question is, where do they get the political will?
We’re rich bro exporting goods to other African, Asian and western countries.
Now Kenya has to get started to make electricity cheap enough so that people can rely on it for cooking, instead of using wood or charcoal. And increase production to not have any blackouts anymore.
There are many reasons we use charcoal for cooking. Like if you go to rural Kenya and tell them to stop using charcoal because of climate change they will laugh at you cause the charcoal makes the food sweeter as opposed to other means, they will only use gas and electricity in urban expat hotels
@Celestino Kariuki 85% of indian houses now use gas and 70% use only gas . If offered easily available at reasonable costs people will definitely switch like they did in india
@Celestino Kariuki that’s a pure myth .Food tastes the same regardless of how its cooked.
Kenya my homeland is number one when it comes to green energy. If we didn’t have unstable governments and high levels of corruption most of the African countries could be far ahead
We have very high levels of corruption in the UK, and you can see that everything is just turning into a mess.
I think we are ok, it’s just that we are not as good on media as the West
That’s a blessing 🙏 GOOD FOR YOU KENYA
You can achieve your goals. Stay at it💯💯💯❤️❤️❤️
OOH WHY WION MEDIA KEEP ON SAYIN KENYA IS GOIN DOWN UNDER CHINA DEBT TRAP….HMMM
now because of the idiots in government will squander all development and up selling their prize to multinationals for peanuts!
Good news for Kenya!
The tyrannical West forced us to not use the easier fossil fuels energy and we prevailed. East Africa is on its way to full green energy reliance with dam and wind energy.
I left my lights on all night yesterday (feel guilty).
Dang fine!
Meanwhile, the US is still debating on fracking and oil exploration in the Arctic
Mashaallah
Kenya electricity very costly!!!
Excellent. Good for them!
Great to see a country actually making an effort and ‘getting on with it’ instead of whining after handouts or saying, ‘But the West used coal first, now it’s our turn, and we’re not going to go carbon free until some ridiculously distant date in the future!’
Nope, these guys (and gals) put their minds and muscle behind what they know is right.
Good work!
Hopefully, their efforts will embarrass wealthier, more privileged Western and manufacturing countries, driving them into action rather than just wasting words (which is pretty much all we get at these summit meetings).
Hmm I don’t think calling out the west for being the major contributor to climate change is whining. Especially, considering westerners are the ones shouting CLIMATE CHANGE but aren’t willing to do anything about it.
Mashallah in support of our Kenyan Brothers…we need this in Yemen inshallah one day soon
Let’s hope when the wind mills break down, and they do frequently, the gov. can afford to repair them.
Wind energy is not sustainable in the republic of Kenya. To date electricity is still imported from Uganda.
Kenya both imports and exports electricity to Uganda depending on issues of supply and demand also Kenya is currently producing more power than it can consume,
When one day we will get rid of our corrupt leaders then we will grow and be wealthy. One day. Maybe.
There is no such thing as “green” or “clean” energy.
ati 90% .. wee wacheni uongo bana..
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Love Kenya 🇰🇪 from Sao Tome and Principe 🇸🇹
Eccept for poor SA!!! They can only increase electicity tarrifs provided by Eskom!!!!
Kenya is unsafe full of corruption
I think I missed something. What’s the specific problems preventing the wind energy getting to the towns?
Infrastructure to evacuate the power from those remote parts of our country to towns and cities.
This is a great start. Something to look out for would be industrial interests which seek to use the cheap energy to set up their factories and may end up taking over the region and turning it into something completely different than what the locals want or intend. Greedy and selfish powers often try to turn a good thing into something negative and that should be kept in mind, but besides that, this could be the start of something great.