In March 2009, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) in collaboration with the International Energy Agency (IEA), the International Transport Forum (ITF) and the Federation Internationale de Automobile (FIA) foundation launched the Global Fuel Economy Initiative (GFEI). The aim of the project was to reduce localized air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions and global national fuel…
Energy is essential to economic and social development and to improve the quality of life of the people and is also an important development indicator, which provides vital inputs for economic development. The African continent has abundant energy resources, which still remains untapped. Renewable Energy in form of hydro, geothermal, wind and solar is a…
Kenya Vision 2030 envisions an improved economic growth of 10% per annum by the year 2015. This growth will be supported by three pillars: Political, Social and Economic. Electricity consumption has a strong correlation to the national Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and therefore a multiplier effect on the economic pillar. Thus the country requires to…
The aspiration of this Sessional Paper on Energy is to lay the policy framework upon which cost-effective, affordable and adequate quality energy services will be made available to the domestic economy on a sustainable basis over the period 2004-2023. This Sessional Paper recognizes that the success of socio-economic and environmental transformation strategies pursued by the…